Crook,County Durham Each frozen dawn shortens the fuse that releases the explosion of growth when spring arrivesIt was a dawn that nearly made me wish that winter might final a little longer. The sun was rising over frosted grass into a cloudless sky. A crystalline morning beckoned, payback for those mildest-on-record months with their grey skies and rain that lasted from dawn until dusk.
I shielded my eyes against shafts of sunlight that speared through the hawthorns and highlighted the fresh green growth of goosegrass. A hedge sparrow, and singing from its perch on top of the hedge,was surrounded in a halo of light.
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Source: theguardian.com