A day at the beach

A day at the beach
Originally uploaded by lyricalmezzo

Spent today avoiding productivity. I did pretty well - went to the beach, started a new book and bought some terrific fresh shrimp on the way home.

It was a nice day and It brought to mind this stanza - albiet about 3 months too late, but hey, I've been busy - from Swinburne's poem Chorus from 'Atalanta'

"For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remember'd is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins."

With the soaking rains we have of late this seemed to echo in my ears today.