Tag Archives: SPRING

Queen of Hope

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Susan

It’s been a crazy time up in my Beethedral this spring. We’ve had very wet weather ever since March, and I hoped that the bees would want to begin swarming from my four over-wintered hives as soon as they got … Continue reading →

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BEE-SOTTED SPRING

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Susan

My back lawn is very sad. Most of its lovely green face is beneath mud now, and in other places the grass is drowned beneath rain puddles. This has been a very wet season, a record-rain season I’m told. Carter … Continue reading →

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Spring Rites

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Susan

It doesn’t look like much at all, really. Just a big jumble of bright green, floating like a platter on my bucket pond. But it is precious to me, the very heart of one of my first annual rites of … Continue reading →

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SPRING SYMPHONY

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Susan

It started with the peeper frogs. Theirs was the first song of spring I heard this year. Many people complain about the “noise” of the peepers, and I am sorry for them, that they are not able to allow this … Continue reading →

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