Overhead, in contrast to the terrestrial stillness, the sky flowed steadily away, like one man's floating fragile life blows across the constant of life itself, to vanish into the unknown. - Ellis Peters
2006, February 11
Robins and Ravens
Spring? The Celtic calendar says yes, it starts midway between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox, about February 5th.
Kate at CiderPress Hill heard a robin on Thursday, February 9th and thought about Spring.
Yesterday I saw a robin on the wire outside the window, and two days ago saw a pair of ravens in a short version of their mating flight. The mating flights of ravens are truly wonderful, they dive and separate, come together, zoom upwards, fly in tandem then separate again, rise up and dive, over and over as if they heard music in the wind, not audible to us.
For Celts and the birds, yes, Spring is here.
