April In Alberta
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Here in Alberta by April we are ready for some sun annd warm weather. We want to get out and do some gardening and see some color and smell some flowers but as I said this is Alberta and spring comes a little later here than other places. We can still get a blizzard that totally destroys the little plants that are tentatively poking their tender heads out of the ground. I had some large leaf bags and I opened them up and made a tent that I weighted down and secured with garden spikes so the wind won't blow them off. Now I hope that protects them enough.
The snow is gently drifting down,
Not like two days ago,
When it was blowing sideways,
In a heavy dump of snow.
All the snow had melted.
The birds are coming back.
The flowers just now breaking ground,
And this dumps in our lap.
My lilies were up almost a foot.
Now they're laying flat.
I put some paper over them,
Hoping they'll come back.
The paper bags I used were large.
I made for them a tent.
I propped them up and prayed for them.
Poor things were limp and bent.
It's now April twenty-fourth,
And snow is drifting down,
Covering trees and flower beds,\
And blanketing the ground.
The weather man said we'd have rain.
We got cold wet snow.
Guess when Alberta is your home,
You just go with the flow.
Copyright © Judy Ball | Year Posted 2021
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