Eclectic, Genre-Busting Fiction

Having proved last month during the Winter Olympics that February around here is as unpredictable as anywhere else in the world (Calgary also had to truck-in snow in 1988), let us put to rest the stereotype that Canada is nought but wind-swept tundra with today’s photos, preceded by a topical quotation from the Bard of Avon:

Daffodils
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.

–“The Winter’s Tale” [16101611]; Act IV, sc iii, 118

Prunus Cerasifera ‘Nigra’ Prunus Cerasifera ‘Atropurpurea’
Prunus ‘Akebono’ Prunus X blireana
Camellia Japonica Camellia Japonica

I wonder what the people in the Canadian Maritimes are doing right now…?

Mood: devious
Music: Nothing, as Jenifer’s having a nap just now
Book: Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey (Viking USA, 2009, ISBN 9780670019632)
One Response to “Spring Hath Arrived Already”
  1. Helen Martin says:

    thank you for the poetry quote: answers a need I have just now. Otherwise, those beautiful blooms are just cruel to the Easterners.

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Eclectic, Genre-Busting Fiction