Spring is coming! Spring is my favourite season of the year.
It is when the day starts to get lighter and the evening doesn’t go dark at 3:30.
Spring has a buoyant effect on me. It removes the cobwebs in my brain and makes me feel lighter and brighter; more positive and energetic.
I supposed I do suffer a little bit from SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, which causes, winter blues and low feelings.
I like the sunshine, I like everything bright! Be that as it may, SAD does not only occur during the winter or autumn time. There are some people who suffer summer blues 🙁
Anyway I expect more sun now that it is March. I can’t wait for the bulbs to come out from the ground and display their array of colourful blooms.
Dear March – Come in –
How glad I am –
I hoped for you before –
Put down your Hat –
You must have walked –
How out of Breath you are –
Dear March, how are you, and the Rest –
Did you leave Nature well –
Oh March, Come right upstairs with me –
I have so much to tell –
I got your Letter, and the Birds –
The Maples never knew that you were coming –
I declare – how Red their Faces grew –
But March, forgive me –
And all those Hills you left for me to Hue –
There was no Purple suitable –
You took it all with you –
Who knocks? That April –
Lock the Door –
I will not be pursued –
He stayed away a Year to call
When I am occupied –
But trifles look so trivial
As soon as you have come
That blame is just as dear as Praise
And Praise as mere as Blame –
– See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22829#sthash.U6lxWi6o.dpuf
…………………………………………………….. TO MY SISTER
IT is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before
The redbreast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.
There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
My sister! (’tis a wish of mine)
Now that our morning meal is done, 10
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.
Edward will come with you;–and, pray,
Put on with speed your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
We’ll give to idleness.
No joyless forms shall regulate
Our living calendar:
We from to-day, my Friend, will date
The opening of the year.
Love, now a universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
–It is the hour of feeling.
One moment now may give us more
Than years of toiling reason:
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.
Some silent laws our hearts will make,
Which they shall long obey:
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.
And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above,
We’ll frame the measure of our souls:
They shall be tuned to love.
Then come, my Sister! come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
We’ll give to idleness.
– William Wordsworth
(The above poem was written by Wordsworth for his sister, Dorothy, who inspired and looked after him.
March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. March is also a long month as it has 31 days. March was named after Roman’s god of war, Mars
We shall endeavor to collate as many events that have happened in the month of March through the years and we would appreciate your help.
Nostradamus apparently published his books of prophecies on 01 March 1555.
March 1, is also St David’s Day, Patron Saint of Wales. Celebrated with daffodils and leeks? I have to check on that.
Did you also know that JR Ewing first came to the television screen on 2 March 1978. “Dallas” was born.
