I don't know how they did it as the Frogs have been notable by their absence these last few days but suddenly the pond is full of spawn, bubbling away and in some cases looking a bit like primeval jelly fish. This is by far the furthest into 'spring' that the ejaculated sago has appeared -31st of March was the previous latest date for that.

As for the proud dads they seem to have gone to ground-sleeping the sleep of the exhausted amongst the Daffodils. But I think we can say that Spring has really come despite the forecast for yet more frost and snow later on tonight.

Labels: Frogs, Hutton Spring, Old Manse, Spawn

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Was Wordsworth Here?

I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
In lake land bright and Surrey's Sutton
But sadly not in frigid Hutton
.

Global Warming Indication No 67: Hutton Spring Unsprung.Late March

The ice caps may be melting but Hutton isn't and the wretched Daffs are in a state of arrested development and have been for the past fortnight-whilst in the balmy south they have been out for a month or more. The images show the usually prolific daffodil areas on the road leading to the Kirk and in the southern garden in the Old Manse. There are some out but only where the cold north wind could not get at them. The group featured were less than 3 metres from the not yet perhaps never flowering variety. But even they have an apologetic air about them.

Is this something to do with the SNP government?

Labels: Daffodils, Hutton Spring, Wordsworth

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