Miles

  I am still here! Spring has been cold and busy so far. Not interesting busy, just busy.  I have been trying to run more to offset the stress of busy.  There is a new little list started down on the right hand side of the blog to keep track of my miles.  More later! - Polly    

Winter Aconite as Acony Bell

The fairest bloom the mountain know

Is not an iris or a wild rose

But the little flower of which i'll tell

Known as the brave acony bell

Just a simple flower so small and plain

With a pearly hue and a little known name

But the yellow birds sing when they see it bloom

For they know that spring is coming soon

Well it makes its home mid the rocks and the rills

Where the snow lies deep on the windy hills

And it tells the world "why should i wait

This ice and snow is gonna melt away"

And so i'll sing that yellow bird's song

For the troubled times will soon be gone

-David Rawlings, Gillian Welch

 
This is the wrong flower for this song, but the two are conjoined in my mind.  My winter aconite seems to perform the same job in New England that Acony Bell does in Appalachia. -Polly