Post Winter

These two photos were taken on April 2, 2014. And they speak volume. We are limping into Spring.
Today, April 6, the cleared driveway and dirt paths are sucking wet but chickadees are flitting around. Robins are hopping on the ground, though it is too early for earthworms to appear. The resident partridge showed her flock, in a flutter, of 6 young adults. They came through the winter. No, Roald Dahl we do not bait them with raisins. Dahl's books entertained the kids through winters such as this one. This March I was introduced to David Mitchell"s "Cloud Atlas"and am grateful to have read it and will visit it again. Another most compelling book is Chang-Rae Lee's "On such a Full Sea." Both  books carry a musicality; that's what I felt.  In the latter the plot is narrated on a symphony of words. " Cloud Atlas" feels more akin to modern and contemporary music. Both books are such treats. I do have a house to clean.