It's That Time

It's April and it should be spring. But it's been chilly and yesterday the wind howled and it rained off and on all day. There ought to be color all over the place but there's just a few precocious daffodils and a couple of kinds of early blooming trees but mostly the earth is dark wet, thawed but cold and muddy. There wasn't anything worth shooting in Citygarden but the sky was doing a dark cloud then clear thing so I went to a favorite place in Forest Park and this is what I found. It reminded me of those old lines:

in Just-

spring          when the world is mud-

luscious the little

lame balloonman

whistles          far          and wee

and eddieandbill come

running from marbles and

piracies and it's

spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer

old balloonman whistles

far          and             wee

and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it's

spring

and

         the

                  goat-footed

balloonMan          whistles

far

and

wee