April Is Here!

It’s April — time for Walking in Season!  But, here’s the thing.  Although in his 3.5 months Bennett has managed to accumulate everything from piles of clothes to organic plush vegetable toys to a lambskin rug, he has not managed to procure a pair of shoes that fit.  And it is “cold” today (in the 40s).  And the last time we took him out walking at this temperature — even with multiple layers of socks on — his little feet were still chilled by the time we got home.  And we, of course, felt the obligatory parental guilt.

So, Walking in Season will come to you tomorrow, when the high is in the 60s and Bennett can accompany us on the loop with toasty toes.  Until then, enjoy the April poem from the children’s book A Child’s Calendar.

And now I’m off to go order a little pair of shoes…

April

It’s spring!  Farewell
To chills and colds!
The blushing, girlish
World unfolds

Each flower, leaf,
And blade of turf –
Small love-notes sent
From air to earth.

The sky’s a herd
Of prancing sheep,
The birds and fields
Abandon sleep,

And jonquils, tulips,
Daffodils
Bloom bright upon
The wide-eyed hills.

All things renew.
All things begin.
At church, they bring
The lilies in.

- John Updike, A Child’s Calendar (1965)