March arrived as
a lion’s roar,
Canine voices
resounded in
wind and lashing
rain shaking trees
and scattering
blue trash boxes.
And then, it snowed—
artful white streaks
blown across fields,
sun-melted to
feline paw prints,
crystals crisped in
sub-zero air.
©2017 Ontheland
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There is a saying about March that some of my readers will have heard of: “In like a lion and out like a lamb”. The idea is that if March starts with severe weather, it will end mildly. Meteorologists claim the saying has little predictive value.
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Meteorologists get the forecast wrong even with the latest computer help….so I guess country folklore is just as good if not better 🙂
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I think so too 🙂
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I like the saying, and as far as I am concerned, it is true enough to keep it going!
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I like it too…perhaps the basic truth of it is that March is a transition month with reprises of winter lion and moments of spring lamb…
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Sometimes we have a lamb or a lion at both ends 🙂
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It’s a wild variable month…potentially…more snow this morning 🙂
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A lot of action and imagery Janice. We have the opposite here, heat , heat and more heat and NO RAIN.
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Opposite weather on opposite ends of the earth 🙂
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Fantastic!
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Thank you Dorna 🙂
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I think so too 🙂
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