With just a week or two to go before we are officially in springtime's frost-free zone, temperatures have plummeted and are hovering just a few degrees above freezing. Our furnace has been murmuring along happily after resting for several days, and it is chanting a susurrant mantra about springtime being somewhere over the hill and still some distance away.
The house finches who are raising a blithe brood in the front door wreath are making occasional trips away to find nourishment, but they are also spending a fair bit of time hunkered down in the crowded nest keeping their fuzzy offspring warm. The maple trees in the garden are in a mild state of shock and a few are even showing traces of shellshocked pink and red along their edges when the north wind brings them fluttering down and onto the rainy deck.
There is always a silver lining though - the return to cooler weather means that we will not be carried away entirely by flies and mosquitoes today, and that is a very good thing. We were royally chewed last weekend.
Mother's Day morning is to be spent in the woods, Thai takeaway and many cups of tea later....
3 comments:
Sounds like a good way to spend Mother's Day - especially the rambling around and the Thai take-away! It's been cool here in Nova Scotia too - a bit rainy - but the upside of that is how verdant the fields and forests are becoming. Have a happy day in the woods!
Have a pleasant day in the woods.
A lovely sounding day. Bless all mothers everywhere and this dear Mother earth we live upon.
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