In the next three week rush of school I am going to be busy. I need to focus on cooking while my thoughts are on spring and farming. Here in Vancouver it is truly spring. When the sun comes out (infrequently) there is no chill from remaining snow or below zero nights and the afternoons blare with blooming flowers and chirping birds. The cherry blossoms have been out in full swing and I walk under several of them on my way to school. Below a quote from Hawklsey Workman…it condenses spring into a few lines. As well, a couple photos of those trees by my house.
All the trees are hers
Tall and green and worst
To pollinate the cup butter
Even apple trees
With reluctant worms
Can satisfy her needs for sure
And the rhubarb burst
Through the dark rich earth
Makes the sweetest intermittent purr
And what is fallow now
Will come to deserve
Poetry’s most lovely words
