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\u201cThe brilliant sunlight lifted the last of the snow from the hillsides today and set streamlets to trickling happily down towards the mill pond. The day set nice winds to visiting quietly in our remnant of orchard trees and whispering in the spruces beside. They brought me, about my choring, subtle reminders that presently tightly curled buds will unfold and grass will green. Jamie has already found blades of grass in some sheltered spot but as he told us by \u2018phone \u201cjes\u2019 bare nibbles of it\u201d for the rabbits there\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As in former Springs, April brings \u201cgull time\u201d to the folks at Alderlea, and to the two in the house on the hill. In numbers they flock inland from the reaches of the river and from dawn until evening calls them to return there, we are aware of their presence. Like great flocks of white geese, they come down to rest on the hillside briefly, and noisily. But very beautiful they are as they swoop and soar above the stream while the sun shines goldenly on them and yet their screaming is so plaintive and continued that both Jeanie and I are relieved when at last in warmer Spring days they desert the neighbourhood, leaving it to the crows\u2019 and other more musical calls. I thought that this morning\u2019s light wind in the trees made a gentle apology for the dreariness of yesterday\u2019s cloudiness and perhaps the coldness that has come tonight. But as James remarked when he came indoors after assuring himself that everything was ship-shape at the stables \u201cIt\u2019s better to have this frost now than when we get into the cropping!\u201d And in between April\u2019s dark days and cold ones, one catches fleeting but heartening promises of delightful days to come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellen\u2019s Diary, April 25th, 1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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