21 March 2017

First Day of Spring!

Daffodils & Spring flowers, photo by Tim Ravenscroft, Wyndlestraw Designs
I remember laughing as a child listening to the UK comedian Spike Milligan reciting a short poem about Spring:
Spring has sprung
The grass has ris
I wonder where the birdies is?

They say the bird is on the wing But that's absurd ‐
The wing is on the bird!
I'm sure he didn't write it, but I was thinking about that the other day when an absolute flock of American Robins came into our back garden and filled the trees with song. They flew industriously backwards and forwards to three large palm trees that were laden with ripe palm nuts. Two were in our neighbour's garden and one high up in the woodlands behind us.

They would fly rapidly towards the low flower heads dripping with their tasty morsels, then grab a palm nut and zoom back to the original perch, singing at the tops of their voices all the time. How they did that with their beaks full of palm nuts beats me!

This continued for about an hour until a hawk appeared nearby and they all left in one dense cloud, with just one or two gentle peep‐peep sounds as they continued on their migration north.
Azaleas, photo by Tim Ravenscroft, Wyndlestraw Designs
And that's about as close as we get to seeing Spring here in Florida. I'm afraid it's not the right climate for daffodils, and even cherry trees have a hard time here. However, we did manage to see some beautiful azaleas at Bok Gardens near Orlando the other day.

I hope you are lucky enough to have daffodils in your back garden today to welcome the First day of Spring. If you haven't, then here's a couple of photos to bring a touch of Spring to you!

Happy Spring knitting!

Moira
Reversible Knitting Stitches by Moira Ravenscroft & Anna Ravenscroft, Wyndlestraw Designs
Last blogpost: Is it a bird or is it a plane?
Next Up: Dreaming of the beach

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Many thanks again to DH Tim for his great photos. If you'd like to see more of his work, then please visit his Flick page.
Keywords: Travel Notes,
Spring, flowers, daffodils, bluebells, rhododendrons, azaleas,

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