Fooled
Warm Rain Means Green
After the warm autumn rain
The gullible landscape
fooled into green
One would think that a week or so of almost morning-frost, of cold driving rain, of longer nights and shorter days, would have brought the message across: Autumn. I mean, it is late October after all.
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Not so. Seems like most plants are so life-happy that given even the most fleeting and flimsy of excuses — like an unusually warm rain one day — oh, boy, Spring’s here, let’s green up.
The trees sport cooler heads, they keep shedding their leaves and muse at the folly of white and yellow flowers that have somehow and somewhere found the strength (and reason) to resurrect.
But I know the forecast, and it might actually freeze overnight, and this will come as very bad news for unwary flowers, who now revel in this one-day spring event, looking around for equally fooled bees to do their thing.
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