“Stealth”, Howard Stein
It’s heading into midsummer. So, the perfect time to post a short poem about autumn. “Stealth” by Howard Stein (who has an interesting bio)captures the transitory, and elusive, nature of…
Tag: seasons
On seeing the first butterflies of Spring…
Perhaps it would be better to say that I saw the first butterflies I had noticed this Spring. The unassuming Small Tortoiseshell was the butterfly in question, and like the…
Ember Days and nature connection
Today, Friday and Saturday are Ember Days. I had never heard of these (though “embertide” rings a faint bell) until I came across this tweet In a way Fr Schrenk…
February, Cheesemount, Tipperary
Winter seems a long time ago in summer, summer seems a long time away in winter.
From “The Long, Long Life of Trees”, Fiona Stafford
In spring, you can feel life stirring in the barest twigs and the silhouetted catkins look as if a diminutive duck has run across the sky. One day the…
Bird feeding mid February
My last “Bird feeding notes”, was from mid November. One of the nice things about bird feeding is the heightened awareness of the passage of the seasons, and how even…
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree…
… because it is still rather small. Earlier this year (I think in February) I bought an Elstar tree from the garden centre. One of the pleasures of recent months…
Séamus Sweeney 