Spring Alert!
6:15 a.m. and a robin is singing noisily outside my window. The saskatoon shrub is ready to leaf out. Crocuses and irises are up in the garden. Yay!
Soon to emerge from the piles of marking,
Leslie
Originally Bruce, Leslie and Zak's e-journal, this blog mostly houses Leslie's thoughts and musings as she struggles upstream in the spawning stream of life. Or at least that's the way I see it -B
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