How the Grinch Stole Spring
When
it snowed the first four days of March, I started feeling like maybe we
weren't getting spring this year. But then came four days of
brilliant sun, and our farm now looks completely different.
As I worked more buckets
of stump
dirt into the garden and planted greens, I felt like I was living
in the climax of How the
Grinch Stole Christmas:
It
came without snowdrops!
It came without droughts!
It came without lettuce,
spring peepers, or sprouts!
And what happened then...?
Well...on our farm they say,
That my tiny winter heart
grew three sizes that day!
It came without droughts!
It came without lettuce,
spring peepers, or sprouts!
And what happened then...?
Well...on our farm they say,
That my tiny winter heart
grew three sizes that day!
Not only did my heart
grow three sizes, I saw two species of butterflies out flitting about
--- the Mourning Cloak I captured in pixels and either a Comma or
Question Mark. The bees were foraging in earnest, though I didn't
take the time to hunt down their quarry. Best yet, Mark got the golf
cart all the way out to the parking area with just a bit of
encouragement. We're back in business!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I think the Grinches are those of us looking to be coated in ice for a month. We get a nice early spring all day, enough to get a good melt-on, then winter comes back at night (-20C) and we have to spend the next first half day treading carefully on the ice. If the pictures I took look good, I will do a post and share.
I loved the poetic revision though!