Sneezy Saturday!

Eyes and nose still streaming.  This is some cold.  Mike is still sneezing from time and time and coughing and he has had it for eleven days now!!  However, I thought I would do a posting before wrapping up warmly and settling down to watch Charles and Camilla's wedding.  If nothing else, I enjoy seeing what people are wearing!

I thought I would share another of my poems with you as it is some time since I posted one.  Although it is bitterly cold today, the sun is shining at the moment and out of the window I can see my plum tree coming into blossom and the buds swelling on the trees so it seems the appropriate time to post this:-

The photos were taken by Mike and are some of the other plants in flower in our garden right now.

SPRING SONG

An orchestra of Daffodils raise their golden trumpets high
And lady Crocus tips her purple bonnet to the sky.
The Bluebell woods are ringing and Primulas are springing
To display their gaudy show,
The lovers' arms entwining, their eyes so brightly shining
As Cupid fires his bow.

There's a billing and a cooing and birds are wildly wooing
And each must do his best
To attract a little lady, who in some corner shady
Is feathering her nest.

In the ponds there is a churning and bodies, twisting, turning
Mid the newly sprouted reeds,
By their jellied offspring floating, the frogs now sit a-gloating
And survey their mating deeds.

The fruit tree buds are swelling as if they are foretelling
Of riches yet to come,
The breeze is softly sighing and new-born sunbeams lying
On Apple, Pear and Plum.
Old earth is softly stirring, insects wings a-whirring -
The awakening has begun.

                                  ~ Copyright JMO 1996

As you can see, the garden is looking very colourful. Mike just rushed out and took the second group whilst I was adding my poem. So, even when the sky is dark, there are splashes of colour which stand out even more.

Hope you enjoy the posting and have a good weekend everyone.