…March needs to get a life. It is a tease. A real passive-aggressive idiot of a month. March is stupid. If I were Queen of the world, there wouldn’t be March.
I’m so ready for spring. But March only promises spring here. It’s worse since the internet came about: craving spring, feeling trapped, needing spring… and seeing spring in other places. March isn’t the beginning of spring. It’s the end of winter, but a long, drawn-out end that needs a stern editor to take it in hand. All these “extreme windchill warning” plot devices are childish and should be deleted.
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…March needs warmth. Basic knitting for busy fingers that leads to warm toes. The cold bright skies of deep winter are covered by grim grey clouds and the soul shivers.
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…March needs colour. Every year I crave flowers and yet let budget-minded thinking keep them just a dream. Not this year. Colour is cheaper than therapy.
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…March needs field trips. Who can handle hum-drum routine? Who can bear the house anymore? Who doesn’t need a bit of a party to leaven the months of being together inside?
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Sketching in the greenhouse. Warm humid air. A pond of fish flashing with colour.
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Picnic lunch and sketching at the art gallery window. A Thermos full of sweet spicy tea.
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…March needs fun.
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so that’s what is wrong with me. I have NO motivation at all.
Love the post and the photos. Fantastic.
I needed color so put down my winter boring color sweater knitting and picked up a new project with Carribbean blues and greens.
After the photos are blogged I’ll come back and share more info.
I whole-heartedly agree. March is such a tease. We’ve been on an unofficial “post-mid-winter” break because I just cannot deal anymore. 😀
I would also delete March. I love the bit about it needing an editor. Fabulous.
and Tigger loves loves loves those socks. You might have to tell me what the yarn is…
I agree, March does feel like a big tease! Love those happy spring socks! 🙂
Spoken like a true Canadian! Sadly we get giddy when the temperature rises above zero. I usually go into denial about this time and put away our winter coats (and then freeze for a month).
My thoughts exactly! I used to hate February, but March is taken its place. I had to start knitting a spring hat in pink and cotton.
Ok, I love that sock photo. Someday I will make socks like that.
Are you reading my march mail?
I’m so glad you are another northern blogger. I feel I can visit your blog and not come away green with early spring envy.
Funny, we too are having a month of more outings. A knit and play date, a Children’s museum, concerts, clay painting. I find the pace a little tiring but necessary to keep us moving through this sluggish and long month.
Take heart my friend. April is coming. The month is almost 1/2 over.
Funny. That’s the way I feel about February but I hear ya. March is ALWAYS weird around here. We call it “Herring Weather” since it only seems to get this way while the herring are spawning. I can’t wait for April. The hummingbirds always come back for my birthday.