Signs of Spring for the Winter Weary

What a thrill it is to see baby leaves busting out!

After this:

Winter hung in there, like an invalid refusing to die. 

Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; 

the world remained unfriendly and cold.”

~ Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants 

(Source ~ goodreads.com)

It's so refreshing to see this:

Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;

To-day the glint of green is there;

Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;

I know no thing so wondrous fair,

No miracle so strangely rare.

~ L.H. Bailey 

(Source:  quotegarden.com)

We're Ready for Spring Too!

Spirit Muley and Friends

ANTONIO VIVALDI - La primavera 

( SPRING CONCERTO NO. 1) 

Source:  You Tube ~ SimonSAlba

         This popular Vivaldi violin concerto 

        is divided into three movements.

        The counter below lets you know where each part begins.

  

         0:00   1) Allegro

         3:30   2) Largo
         6:20   3) Allegro Pastorale



Note:  A poet, perhaps Vivaldi himself, 
           wrote fours sonnets to go with 
           the four concertos in The Four Seasons.
  
           It is uncertain if the music was written 
           to accompany the sonnets 
           or if the sonnets were written 
           to accompany the music.  
          
           The spring sonnet is divided into three parts, 
           just as the concerto is divided into three movements. 



Spring Sonnet 
(Translation - the original Italian is written in sonnet form
with fourteen lines and a specific rhyme pattern and structure.)

Allegro
Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her return with festive song,
and murmuring streams are softly caressed by the breezes.
Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar,
casting their dark mantle over heaven,
Then they die away to silence,
and the birds take up their charming songs once more.

Largo
On the flower-strewn meadow,
with leafy branches rustling overhead,
the goat-herd sleeps, his faithful dog beside him.

Allegro Pastorale
Led by the festive sound of rustic bagpipes,
nymphs and shepherds lightly dance
beneath the brilliant canopy of spring.
Source:  en.wikisource.org

               

                      Antonio Vivaldi                      Source:  Wikimedia

So here's to the first baby leaves busting out,

returning robins, and happy deer!

Blankets of snow may still come in our Colorado April,

but they can't hold back 

the excitement of returning spring!