" For days on end the steel grip of the frost holds the land.The plough lies half covered with snow; the robin hops in at the farm kitchen window. And all the time, under the coverlet of snow, the vivid green wheat grows in the field. Soon the thaw will come, and as the dark earth is visible again in the farmhouse garden, it shall be spotted with snowdrops and the pale gold of frilled aconites".
Words by Claire Leighton from 'The Farmer's Year', A Calendar Of English Husbandry, 1933.
Illustration by Edith Holden from 'The Country Diary of An Edwardian Lady', published 1906.
This sentiment really resonated; we are at just that point in the season. A fresh snowfall today, but I know that underneath, new shoots of spring bulbs are pushing up.
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