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Winter Blooms

February 17, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Another week vanishes

without plan or purpose.
Winter creeps along muted, hazy,
sometimes dreary. Then crocus blooms
like a song I know by heart.
Soon it will be spring.

talya

Musical Pairing:

Hazy Shade of Winter, Simon & Garfunkel

Filed Under: Gardening, Nature & Seasons Tagged With: spring, Winter

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Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    February 17, 2013 at 6:34 am

    amen!

  2. Colene says

    February 17, 2013 at 8:45 am

    Well put! Just 31 days until Spring!

  3. Patricia A. Laster says

    February 18, 2013 at 6:38 am

    And I have an iris blooming!

  4. TimH says

    February 18, 2013 at 7:39 pm

    Well, we seem to be going through about 3 Seasons a week here in Tennessee at the present time, but I am looking forward to Spring.=)


Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (2022)

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