Spring is Sprung?
Prompted by posts on Libertine’s blog and Big John’s Blog I am putting my twopenn’orth in about the time of the year. For me, the first of March is like the shedding of the dark days of winter. Okay, so at the moment it’s snowing outside. However, March snow is ephemeral, rarely does it settle and if it does, it will have melted by midday in most cases. Certainly it isn’t the deep long lasting drifting stuff of early January and February. A little sleety snow, I can bear.
when I look in my garden, I see the first faint stirring of the new year. There were a couple of toads in the pond a week or so ago. Now is the start of their gathering. By the end of the month there will be a dozen or so couples spawning. By late May the pond will be swarming with toad tadpoles.
No, the weather isn’t getting me down - all I need to do is look at these
and be reminded that British Summertime is just around the corner and along with it longer evenings and afternoons sitting in the shade of the parasol watching the world go by…well, I can dream, can’t I?
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