April Fools Day Snow Storm and More – Maine

Posted on April 5, 2011

Last year in March I plowed my garden in 70 degree weather.  Twice!  The above picture shows what April 1st looked like.  Before the Nor’easter arrived,  the ground was nearly bare, but it was still very wet and muddy.  No plowing in March this year.  In fact, I may not be able to get a plow through my garden till June.  Such is life in New England!

Boo is not impressed one bit!

Cody doesn’t mind at all.

This is more like it, says Boo, snow with a frozen crust on top to keep me from sinking!  This was the day after the storm.

Boo & Muffin have a unique relationship.  Muffin follows Boo whenever he is in the pasture.  He’s remarkably gentle with him, will even trot right behind him if Boo is walking fast, but the second Boo stops Muffin stops, too, so he doesn’t step on him.  So cut to watch!

Whiskers in the late day sun.

Annabelle on her 16th birthday.  My my how time flies!!!

Spring Quotes

Posted on April 3, 2010

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.  ~Proverb

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Sensitive Plant”

Spring has returned.  The Earth is like a child that knows poems.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke

If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.  ~Terri Guillemets

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball.  I’ll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.  ~Rogers Hornsby

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