Goodbye Winter

[poliphilo]

A pinch and a punch on the first of the month.

I know what Eliot says about April being the cruelest month, but I've never understood it; I'd be glad for it to be April now and the lilacs growing out of the dead land.

Does he mean that April fails to live up to its promise?

I guess one can't accuse February of that. February makes no promises. It is the coldest, bleakest, muddiest, dankest month. Thank God, it is also the shortest.

And now it's March. And here comes Flora, with one hand on her hat, pushing her way against a strong, cold wind, with daffodils clasped in the crook of her arm.

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[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Had Flora been around here this morning she would have gotten lost in the snow - or run over by a plow. I keep saying to myself that the more snow we get, the higher the level of our well will be at the cottage this summer. Sometimes that even works.

March. Turn over a leaf on the calendar. On one calendar is picture of four very young Beatles - three of them gathered around one microphone and Ringo off to one side with his drum kit. On another calendar are three beautiful kitties looking back - the one in the middle looking a great deal like Leona Elizabeth when I got her. (There isn't a kitten in this world that I could resist.)

February is the longest shortest month of the year...I too am glad to turn the page and note that even though it was snowing VERY hard this morning, the sky grew lighter earlier.

John Hartford said "August is a wicked month, a pleasure yet so sad..."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Four very young Beatles- that's nice.

We have a Harry Potter calendar and the picture for March is....erm, Harry looking worried and Hagrid carrying what looks like a dead body and some mythical beastie with the body of a horse and the head and wings of an eagle; I haven't seen the movie so I don't know what the hell it all means....

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Even if you HAVE seen the movie, it means whatever you want it to mean.

I'm waiting impatiently for the 'newest' book.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

A good point.

I've never caught the Potter bug, but I did enjoy the first of the movies.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Ooh, calendars! I hadn't thought yet. This means I get a new guinea-pig: white this month, instead of brown for February. He has some butter-cups.

I will have to wait to see what new view of Oxford awaits me when I get home.

P.S. As I write this, it has just start hailing in Belfast.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I had a friend one time, who lived in Athlone. When we'd talk (EARLY in the morning here) I'd complain about the snow.

And he'd always say "You Americans. You all come from fine pioneer stock..."

No, no. Some of us are decended from aristocrats....and we don't like the cold....