and in the Fire of Spring!!

It is the first day of Spring and it is a beautiful day, it brought to mind the verse out of the Rubaiyat of  Omar Khayyam .....
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garments of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly_ and Lo! the Bird is on the wing.
He knew a thing or two about living and enjoying that living, old Kayyam...
I used to quote him quite a bit to my boys, especially when they needed to be roused from their beds.
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultans Turret in a Noose of Light.....
they were never amused!!
All the birds are very active today,the spoggies have returned and are helping themselves to the chookies food, the doves who whooing, the grey thrush singing, the blackbirds darting hither and dither.
This afternoon when I was spraying the fence lines  and edges of the track for weeds, the grey thrush came and sat in the gumtree above my head and sang and sang, I asked if there was a mate for it, I do hope so. The swallows are inspecting the shed where the cars are parked and I don't really want them to nest in there, they are dear little birds but their droppings on the car are not good. Still not as bad as the pelicans that foul the pumpman's car who lives near the Onkaparinga river in old Noarlunga!
imagine the mess !! The bluetongue is still sunning itself but has moved to the garden bed while he still seems to overnight behind the box next to the norhtfacing wall.

Brian has started to prune the roses at the back, the front ones have been done and are shooting now. We need to feed the bulbs which have finished flowering so as they can store energy for next year's flowers.