The spring is moving in, today most visible in the appearance of meltwater under the thick snow pack we have. It generally starts this way, with snow melting from the bottom up a bit ahead of the warmup from above which manifests in a compacting of the snow cover. We find it easy to forget that the earth is warm at heart and that the conduction of heat from the earth's core has as much to do with spring as the warming air.
There is a sense that the season told us we needed to bundle up and lay in supply in November and December so that we could sleep more and work less. This is followed by the returning light and invitation in spring to stir and wake up, to get on with the joy and work of the farm. It would be difficult, pretty much impossible, not to respond. Impossible anyway for me!
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