Heralds of Spring on the Ranch

MARCH comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb
The weather is traditionally wild at the beginning of March, but fair by the end.

1625 J. Fletcher Wife for Month (1717) II . i. ‘I would chuse March, for I would come in like a Lion.’‥‘But you'd go out like a Lamb when you went to hanging.’

1670 J. Ray English Proverbs 41 March hack ham [hackande = annoying ] comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. iv. Charming and fascinating he resolved to be. ... http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1O90-MARCHcomesnlklnndgstlklmb.html

Lambs, smallest born three days ago


Flowering Quince


Jonquils


Plum blooms burst out this morning



Fresh eggs a-laying


Warm weather will push this fertile rot to the roots


Twin too weak to survive will be a boon to the uppushing bluebonnets

One of my daily emotional concerns (source of nightmares) is that my sheep won’t have good quality forage in winter. These warm days have lit the green fuse.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
by Dylan Thomas

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
The force that drives the water through the rocks
Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams
Turns mine to wax.
And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins
How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.
The hand that whirls the water in the pool
Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind
Hauls my shroud sail.
And I am dumb to tell the hanging man
How of my clay is made the hangman's lime.
The lips of time leech to the fountain head;
Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores.
And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind
How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.
And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm. http://radio.upei.ca/node/4920