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Tag Archives: apple blossom
Enchanted Wood at Blossoming – June 1918
(Margaret was great observer of children. Here’s another column on her nieces and nephews) There is a wood in which, strange to say, I had never set foot. It is beyond the “top dam,” and is fenced off in a … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Children
Tagged apple blossom, black bird, blossom, crab apple, fruit, nests, nieces and nephews, plants, thrush
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Contrasting Views – May 1924
It was the second really warm day of May, and I found an aged woman leaning on the parapet of a rustic bridge and gazing at the water beneath, wimpling over the grey stones between its primrose starred banks. “Isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Spring
Tagged apple blossom, ash trees, bird-cherry, blossom, crab apple, misery, rural woman, weather
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The May Cow Quake – May 1923
There is an old saying meant as a caution against putting cows out to grass too early that, after the 12th May, comes a cow quake. A quake that is like to be memorable arrived just before the 12th and … Continue reading
Posted in Cows, Farming, Spring, Weather
Tagged apple blossom, beech, Cows, elm, hills, spring, summer, wind and the rain, winter, winter forage
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