Winter Turns To Spring

Snowfall so heavy in 'eighty-two reproduced a Christmas card view. A biting wind swirled in one foot drifts over hanging in bridges..makeshift. The fields flooded into skating rinks into which each footstep sinks, cracking under body weight so not the best place to skate. Thawing February brings twitching noses in tussocks of awakened primroses. Rummaging on hazel boles,hibernating mammals poke from the holes. Leafless hedgerows where buds now form a carpet of white corm, Badgers forage for food near their sett renewing their bracken scented couchette. Sparrow and robin pair off in twos as lengthening days come into view. aconite open in rays of sun below yellow catkins with tails fine spun. Osier shoots in green corn camomile as early Spring mornings begin to smile.