Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Yesterday, sunglasses and shirtsleeves. Today, jackets and gloves. A stainless steel cover has been clamped down hard, over this springtime sky. Snow flurries are busying the atmosphere, wind braying in the treetops. A Pileated woodpecker rises, its shrill cry piercing this transformed landscape.
Snow fallen overnight, crept in on padded feet, to astonish us with its pristine white wash, is melting, rushing the slopes of the ravine, flooding the creek, bubbling hastily downstream. Crows darken the sky in a pattern of wings flapping above swaying tree tops, into the forest.
A temporary weather setback in spring's itinerary. Coltsfoot hide their bright yellow faces, awaiting the sun's return. Apple blossom buds bate their unveiling. Honeysuckle and gooseberry bushes await release. Trilliums, unheeding of the cold, wave crimson flags.
Wild ginger begins its early presence, where wild strawberry, spring violets, raspberry and blackberry canes, and thimble berries too, find their comfortable presence. Earth's gifts to the animals that Nature so amiably nurtures, in between her tumultuous bouts of peevish hysteria.
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