The thaw has set in and the landscape has again been transformed, this morning by half thawed snow and flooded fields. The monochromatic view from the Formartine Buchan Way to Mormond Hill over fields frozen with half frozen water still signaled Winter. However, the thawing landscape by Philorth Woods this morning brought to mind 'Thaw' by Edward Thomas. Perhaps, given that we are still over a week away from the shortest day and more cold weather forecast for next week, this is optimism in the extreme.
Thaw
Over the land freckled with snow half thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from the elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass
What we could not see, Winter pass.
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