Betrayal!

Crocus, Kennebunk, Maine, April 16

Freezing rain coming in sheets sideways,
parking lots flooded with ice water over
the holes in my crocks, crocus huddled
in a bed of slush, my weatherproof jacket
soaked throug in minutes. What a day
for mid-April, nothing short of a betrayal.
The birds are flocking the feeders, and
after one short round of errands, I am
nursing hot coffee over the computer and
the beginnings of a real weather grudge!

And what a lot of good that will do me.

Crocus huddled in a bed of slush, indeed! Not April weather even in Southern Maine. Sony RX10iv at 600mm. Program mode. 1/500th @ f4 @ ISO 2000. (Not bad at all for ISO 2000!) Processed in Polarr and Apple Pbotos.

2 Comments

  1. Reply
    Gerrit Haagsma April 17, 2018

    You know how it is with an April day,
    The sun is out and the wind is still
    You’re one month on to the middle of May,
    But if you should so much as dare to speak
    a cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
    the wind comes off from a frozen peak,
    and you’re two months back in the middle of March. Robert Frost as quoted from memory by Rebecca Haagsma

    • Reply
      lightshedder April 17, 2018

      One of my favorite poems. But he was a Vermonter.

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