• Bring in, Ring in, Sing in the Spring

    Spring is sometimes a long time coming. As snow melts and winter slowly blows away, the earth begins its unfolding of new life and hopeful greening. While we can still snowshoe through the soft white and sip the clear, wintry air, we dream the sparkle of spring, that wind-chapped-cheek time, where ‘baby fiddleheads sleep/like so may questions deep’ and sun comes ‘smiling in/as longer days of light begin’.

    A poetic celebration of the season, Sing in the Spring! invites readers into a rural family home and the natural world that surrounds them. Tiny details and close emerging from hibernation are a source of wonder, seeds hold secrets of sunflowers, and mudilicious puddles await!

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Curled up baby fiddleheads sleep
Psst!
Snowshow trails - look! Rabbit tracks.
Underneath beneath the earth
Brrr!
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Sharp green arrows, those asparagus tips
Spring musics's a mad-jazz glad-jazz
Spring rain comes slanted sideways
Wind-chapped cheek time clothes flapping on the line
Our spangled hens are loose again!
Does a butterfly fly better because there's butter in its wings?
Ladybugs bluebottle flies
Worms squiggle squirem
We plant seed here We plant seeds there
They're back! They're here!
Sparkly light on everything
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Working with Sheree Fitch has been an exciting opportunity, a celebration really. Her verse is the spark that cracks open the seed. My work is to create, magnify, magicify, whimsy-fy her words with emotion, colour and texture. In this is the whirl of worldly possibility. I ask of the verse, what will you be?

There is, of course, a reason why the BUY BOOK HERE button links you to Woozles, Canada’s oldest children’s bookstore located in Halifax. It was there I worked with Barb Robson who showed me her beautiful quilts, who, despite my very wonky, misaligned, simple, rudimentary patchwork blocks, encouraged me.

The book is also available through Sheree Fitch’s Mabel Murples Bookshop and Dreamery, a summer seasonal bookshop (July-Sept), visit her site at https://www.mabelmurplesworld.ca/

 

A book preview…

Watch the quilts being assembled.

Thanks to Sarah Boland for the gift of a subscription to her LifeLapse app.