Alexander - thanks for sharing this as I believe it was published before I had discovered you. I love how your writing really connects me to a place. When I read I feel that I am there in your locale and walking alongside you. I appreciate that your writing is clean and lean, not prone to overly descriptive adjectives but just the real scene as experienced by you. It is beautiful and I appreciate it.
Thank you so much Matthew, this makes me really happy. It is a strange thing, as I hadn't really thought of resharing things I've already shared here until today. It makes sense though, as the vast majority of the engaged readers arrived in the last year, which gives several years of back catalogue to share.
I also find it interesting to compare pieces I shared at a similar time of the year, see what is different, what is the same.
Thanks again, I really appreciate your comment and share.
I don’t think I had subscribed to The Crows Nest when you wrote the original post Alex, so this was a delightful wander through your spring albeit little later than hoped! I find more and more the importance of making with notes each year of seasons that passes. So much changes now with the climate as it is… I know you know!
It is such a great thing, to be able to share words over the years, again and, probably at some point in the future, again and again! This is the magic of writing, how something we writers think has been done and dusted, shared already, now let's move on, can also be fresh and interesting to new readers and, indeed, some who have already read the words. I find I return to certain books again and again, but not to all, after all!
Thank you for reading and commenting, you are so right about the importance of recording these details, of looking at the changes and wondering. This morning, for example, the mercury has not risen above five degrees and the hoar frost and snow line has descended alarmingly in the night. The birds still sing, but I suspect some are regretting their decision to arrive in these woods...
It’s the same here Alex, I stepped outside this morning at 7am to let out the chickens and immediately returned for more layers! And as I type this, a huge hail storm has just passed over… too big and too long for me not to worry about the fruit trees. And apparently there is more to come.
I have never thought about reposting any of my earlier posts, I’m not sure they would stand a second scrutiny to be quite honest… though I am now, of course, going to have a quick read!
It is a scary time of the year for the fruit trees, the seedlings, nestlings and others. I think I might have to light the stove later!
As for earlier posts, one thing you could always do, if you think they might not stand up to a second scrutiny, is use them as a base for something new and fresh, referring back to paragraphs and ideas, if you think they whole needs work. I really struggle not to edit things ad nauseum, which I like to think of as an increase in my level of editing skills! I remember reading that many poets do this all their life, even with their most famous works, they are never finished, a word altered here one year, there a semi-colon removed for a comma. Perhaps it is merely like this in life, we are never finished, after all, even long after we are gone this ("my") bunch of molecules and atoms merrily continue their journey.
I also think that very few of us have the time to go all the way back through an archive to read it all, so sharing again (even if rejigged) is only fair!
This is the second spring we've been living in this house (the one before, in 2022, we were mostly renovating, beginning in late April, so it doesn't really count). It feels good to have those signs of the seasons, to be able to look at a year this way, somehow right.
Alexander - thanks for sharing this as I believe it was published before I had discovered you. I love how your writing really connects me to a place. When I read I feel that I am there in your locale and walking alongside you. I appreciate that your writing is clean and lean, not prone to overly descriptive adjectives but just the real scene as experienced by you. It is beautiful and I appreciate it.
Thank you so much Matthew, this makes me really happy. It is a strange thing, as I hadn't really thought of resharing things I've already shared here until today. It makes sense though, as the vast majority of the engaged readers arrived in the last year, which gives several years of back catalogue to share.
I also find it interesting to compare pieces I shared at a similar time of the year, see what is different, what is the same.
Thanks again, I really appreciate your comment and share.
I don’t think I had subscribed to The Crows Nest when you wrote the original post Alex, so this was a delightful wander through your spring albeit little later than hoped! I find more and more the importance of making with notes each year of seasons that passes. So much changes now with the climate as it is… I know you know!
It is such a great thing, to be able to share words over the years, again and, probably at some point in the future, again and again! This is the magic of writing, how something we writers think has been done and dusted, shared already, now let's move on, can also be fresh and interesting to new readers and, indeed, some who have already read the words. I find I return to certain books again and again, but not to all, after all!
Thank you for reading and commenting, you are so right about the importance of recording these details, of looking at the changes and wondering. This morning, for example, the mercury has not risen above five degrees and the hoar frost and snow line has descended alarmingly in the night. The birds still sing, but I suspect some are regretting their decision to arrive in these woods...
It’s the same here Alex, I stepped outside this morning at 7am to let out the chickens and immediately returned for more layers! And as I type this, a huge hail storm has just passed over… too big and too long for me not to worry about the fruit trees. And apparently there is more to come.
I have never thought about reposting any of my earlier posts, I’m not sure they would stand a second scrutiny to be quite honest… though I am now, of course, going to have a quick read!
It is a scary time of the year for the fruit trees, the seedlings, nestlings and others. I think I might have to light the stove later!
As for earlier posts, one thing you could always do, if you think they might not stand up to a second scrutiny, is use them as a base for something new and fresh, referring back to paragraphs and ideas, if you think they whole needs work. I really struggle not to edit things ad nauseum, which I like to think of as an increase in my level of editing skills! I remember reading that many poets do this all their life, even with their most famous works, they are never finished, a word altered here one year, there a semi-colon removed for a comma. Perhaps it is merely like this in life, we are never finished, after all, even long after we are gone this ("my") bunch of molecules and atoms merrily continue their journey.
I also think that very few of us have the time to go all the way back through an archive to read it all, so sharing again (even if rejigged) is only fair!
Thank you for this -- I love the keeping of signs of the seasons.
This is the second spring we've been living in this house (the one before, in 2022, we were mostly renovating, beginning in late April, so it doesn't really count). It feels good to have those signs of the seasons, to be able to look at a year this way, somehow right.