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Mar 24Liked by KateMotleyStories

Waiting with great anticipation for blossoms and crocus to appear in Canada .. a harbinger of Spring ! The robins have arrived yet their poor little feet are still dipping in snow thank you for this beautiful newsletter which offers so much about Spring and all the reasons I look forward to it’s brief appearance here!

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Thank you for your comments, and I hope spring comes soon. We have just dug over our garden, and so we have happy, fat Robins, who have feasted on the worms.

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Mar 26Liked by KateMotleyStories

Crocuses shooting up through the melting snow. The sound of baby peepers in the pond.

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Crocuses are so pretty and in so many lovely colours. I hope they have appeared and your spring has come.

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Mar 24Liked by KateMotleyStories

Thank you for this reminder to slow down and appreciate the season even more. I love Spring too, and am grateful it stretches out here in the UK. I saw the first openings of cherry blossom on the trees near where I live yesterday, and many of the magnolias are in full bloom, or thereabouts. Such a hopeful time.

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It is a great time to slow down and be mindful - enjoy. Magnolias are magnificent, we have one in our garden.

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Lovely mini memoirs about spring, I particularly like the Gerard Manley Hopkins, reading his poem of spring takes me straight back to my school years. Thank you.

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Did you have to learn it by heart?

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Yes we did, I can’t remember any of it now 45 years on…. I just revisited some of them online, I think probably Duns Scotus's Oxford…

Towery city and branchy between towers;

Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark charmèd, rook racked, river-rounded;

The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did

Once encounter in, here coped & poisèd powers;

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