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Turkey Tracks: Celebrating Spring Snow Drops
Turkey Tracks: March 9, 2020
Celebrating Spring Snow Drops
The Snow Drops are here—at least in some warm, sunny places.
I have not seem mine yet up here on the hill, but Lion Jerry Stone has some, which gives us all joy.
He celebrated with this message and picture.
Thanks Jerry!
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February 29, 2020
Fine friends & friendly foe,
Nothing more excites me as March crawls closer to introduce Maine to spring than the precious, plucky snowdrops along the front cellar wall at Bette’s & my modest Camden home. Few things in life attempt “gilding the lily”, for they are themselves already perfect. And so, annually, snowdrops revive my restless soul & poetic pursuit. Enjoy my early spring welcome with picture & poetry.
This Leap Year spring arrives on March 19th.
Blessings to all who hope & dream!
Jerry Stone
Oh, Brave Snowdrops Now Here!
by Jerry Stone, 2.29.20
Oh, gentle & glad surprise!
Oh, now-exposed, perennial plant pals.
Oh, slender & slim, at-risk snowdrops.
Oh, cute cotton swabs just before green flap & flower.
Oh, feeble friends, sneaking up this hardest early hour
In February’s frosty earth this Leap Year Day.
Among snow & stone & lazy tannic leaf you lay.
Oh, surprising bloom, Heaven-sent & hope-filled!
You signal mild winter’s end & salute spring’s slow start.
Oh, modest firstborn, oh, feeble firstling, “lily gild”,
By example, I’m also here, vulnerable but humble in heart.
Poems: Walking Haiku 19 and 20
Poems: February 7, 2018
Walking Haiku 19 and 20
It’s often warm in Maine this winter. And it’s often really cold. We have yo-yo weather these days.
As I write, we are expecting a major snow storm, but here on the coast the snow may turn to rain later today.
No No Penny and I had a lovely walk on Monday, the first in some time.
19.
February 5, 2018
Hard rain all night long
In February, in Maine
Global warming comes
20.
February 5, 2018
February thaw
Sunshine brims from blue sky and
Sparks fire on the lake
Poems: Haiku 13
Poems: December 2, 2017
Haiku 13
13.
December 1, 2017
Colors coat the lake
Sky blue, cloud silver, fir green
The sun comes and goes
Poems: Haiku 12
November 30, 2017
Haiku 12
12
November 27, 2017
The air smells of snow
Ice crusts the river shallows
Solstice time draws near
Poems: Haiku 11 and Learning Herringbone Pattern
Poem: November 27, 2017
Haiku 11 and Learning Herringbone Pattern
11.
November 26, 2017
White birches in the
Winter woods seem like ice spikes
Piercing the sky bowl.
Here’s my first attempt at making Victoria Findlay Wolfe’s herringbone pattern—from her new book MODERN QUILT MAGIC. It uses 2 by 8-inch strips. This SAMPLE has been trimmed to make a pillow. For right now I’m just putting this sample into the Parts Department box. Lord knows I do NOT need any more pillows in my house!!!
And I learned what I need to know.
I do think that I will use this pattern to make a Cotton+Steel low volume lap quilt—a project I have longed to make for some months now.
Poems: Haiku 10
November 27, 2017
Haiku 10
Haiku 10
November 16, 2017
Beneath white snow sky
Cold-frame planted with seeds
Promise of green spring
Poem: Haiku 9
Poem: November 27, 2017
Haiku 9
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November 25, 2017
