March 19, 2013 · Filed under awards and prompts, fiction, gardening, hope, memories, nature studies, postaday, prompts, Uncategorized · Tagged 100 word prompts, 100WCGU, 20 Lines or less, Big Blog Collection, disappointment, dogwoodwinter, flowers, Great Fellow Bloggers, hope, prompts, spring
It happens every March here in the mountains. Right after a cold spell, the sun will come out. It will warm the earth, causing flowers to bud and bloom. Those of us who love to garden will rush to the hardware store. We buy top soil and seeds. We dig up dead grasses, sprouting weeds.
Spring is here at last! A few glorious days of warmth. Fragile lilacs burst forth. We want so badly to forget what the unseasonal weather meant. It is not spring, not really, not yet. Grandpa called it Dogwood winter. I just sigh and call it disappointment.
July 19, 2012 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged 100 Word Photo Prompt, 100 word photo prompt challenge, disappointment, Frapes of Wrath, Grapes of Wrath, grapes., late frost, lte rost
She remembered the fragrance of grapes on her grandma’s heavy vines. Her tears moistened the winter soil around her young vine as she remembered the one lost to a driveway for a new house. In February, she trimmed back the vines as her uncle had taught her long ago. She watched as the early spring filled the vine with tiny potential grapes. Her grandson delighted in the soft new clusters. There was only one thing she forgot-it wasn’t yet May, even though the spring had been hot and early. One night, a late frost fell unexpectedly. She arose to, a withered vine, one cluster of tiny grapes remained. Ironic, that it had been one of her favorite books-The Grapes of Wrath.
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