After a
blazing March with balmy days and clear blue skies, April is biting back. One day
this week lunch was eaten on the terrace in the sunshine and following morning
Embach was white as in deepest winter.
Nature,
and the rest of us were caught on the back foot. Buds bursting out on branches
are now blasted and iced. In the garden, bushes had been unbound from the bonds
that bind them tight in winter, protecting them from the weight of the snow.
Skis and
boots have gone to the cellar and bikes brought out of their winter sleep.
Scarves, woolly hats and winter clothes, washed and put away. Cars are running
on quieter, smoother summer tyres. Heating systems turned off or down. Garden
furniture returned to the terrace and now stand snow-bedecked and uninviting.
A few
Easter guests are arriving for the last of the skiing on snow that will be a
little refreshed. As they leave, the first summer arrivals will be on their
way.
In a day
or two this icy reminder of the winter will be gone and the spring flowers that
brightened the meadows will raise their heads once again. It will soon be time
for putting up the Maypole a traditional sign that summer really is on its way.
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