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 Next week, posts on my bread-making (with links to a Sourdough Bread recipe) and on my newly completed Birkin sweater (shown in yesterday's Instagram post), but for today I just want to get us outside, in some Nurturing Nature. I've had such a craving for wild space, lately, and yesterday all the indoor projects got pushed aside, and Paul and I headed to Burnaby Lake. We expected the paths to be muddy, and they were in spots, even snowy still in a few places, but the Indian Plum -- Oemleria cerasiformis -- the first deciduous indigenous plant of the region to flower, to call out to the pollinators, to hurry along the waking-up process, was just beginning to open.

 And even though much of the lakeside walk through the woods was still hushed, the winter greens of lichen and moss glowed in the sunshine . . .

 So spring is on its way, and March -- we're already two days into the third month of the year! For Pater and I, the calendar is already well marked for the next thirty days:

two grandchildren turn Three;
we have full responsibility for a Five and an Almost-Three for five days while their parents enjoy some Travel Time;
we begin ballroom-dance classes at the local community centre (I know! Should be fun, but we're a bit nervous -- old dogs, new tricks, and all that);
and we have a week in Portland. . .

 Not only is March promising to be a busy month; ss well, it's always significant to me as my mother's birth month, and these past few years it's marked the anniversary of her death.  If you've been reading my blog for a while, you may remember that I've written about walking 'round this lake before, in the spring. in memory of walking it with Mom.

And although March was barely begun yesterday, I was delighted to find that the skunk cabbage, which so remind me of walking here with her, are beginning to poke their leaves out of the muck. I had to wade into that muck, my rubber boots sinking almost to mid-calf, to get these photos -- thinking, inevitably, of Mom, at 81, jumping in among the fleshy skunk cabbage leaves to pose for a photo, completely careless of getting her shoes muddy.

So it's not quite Spring yet, but the days are already noticeably longer here, the equinox only a few weeks away, and signs of growth abound.  We may yet see another snowfall here, and I know I've still got time to enjoy wearing my new sweater, but soon we'll be out there hiking and walking and riding our bikes and gardening. . . . or just sitting on the grass, or at a table, or on a bench, in the sun . . . I'm ready!

Today, though. . . today is grey here (although we have four or five days of sunshine forecast, just 'round the corner, can't wait!). I'm going to get myself to the gym, see if that rustles up some endorphins, and then I've planned a yarn store outing and a writing session in a favourite bakery/teashop. We have a sleepover with a Grand tonight, a first ballroom-dance class tomorrow, and that's it for the weekend plans so far. You?

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