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On the First Day of (Real) Spring in NH

by: susaninrindge

Sat Apr 09, 2011 at 13:28:36 PM EDT
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Waste Land (1922)

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susaninrindge :: On the First Day of (Real) Spring in NH
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On the First Day of (Real) Spring in NH | 3 comments
Oh, yes, (4.00 / 1)
mixing memory and desire.  What a definition of spring.  Just came in from raking a couple million oak leaves from just one of the gardens we have scattered around our little, steep piece of land in the woods.  Ben is sawing and hammering, fixing a piece of siding that was rotting.  Took some pics of the piles of snow still left.  We are about 850 feet above sea level, yes in Northwood, even Northwood Ridge is about the elevation, and spring comes more slowly here than just down the road.  But fall lasts longer.  
Northwood is the high point between Concord and Portsmouth, we have the high points of, I think it is 4, watersheds here, draining off in different directions.  
We're at 1K feet in Rindge (4.00 / 1)
And I,too, just came in from raking around the edges of snow. Bulbs peaking up on one side of the garden, while the other side lies buried.


"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." Albert Einstein
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Snowdrops, squill, and chinodoxa (4.00 / 1)
plus visible daffodil buds swelling on the south side of the house here in Walpole, close enough to the Connecticut River--or, as some in Concord call it, the left coast--to feel some of its moderating influences.

On the north side, huge snowbanks still, with a bumper crop of poodles.

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