MOST FASCINATING SEASON

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 252, 25 October 1933, Page 16

MOST FASCINATING SEASON

(Sent in by A. P. Clear, Kimpton Road, Papatoetoe, age 16.) Spring, the most wonderful —the most fascinating of all the seasons, has at last arrived, and dreary winter has fled before an army of sunbeams. A fairy has waved her magic wand over my garden, and what a wonderful transformation is taking place. Flowers, which a few weeks ago were wrapped in lifeless Blumber, are to-day clad in gorgeous gowns of magnificent hue, and sway to and fro in the caress of a gentle breeze. Flitting busily from bloom to bloom, that industrious creature, the bee, sings a song of spring to himself, as lie wanders from one haven of beauty to another. In the orchard, too, there is more magic. Fruit trees, hitherto barren and leafless, are bursting into blossom, some pink, some white, but each one a constant source of wonder and beauty, and a gift to every one from Mother Nature. Away in the country tiny lambs gambol here and there in the sunlit meadows, while their mothers, shorn of their winter coats, enjoy the sweetness of the new clover, and bask in the spring sunshine. Our tiny feathered friends, the birds, although busy building their nests, sing their sweetest songs from morn till eve, as though carolling the praises of Nature. Soon Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow will begin to teach baby sparrow to fly, and what excitement then. Humans, too, are hailing the arrival of spring. On our harbours sail whitewinged craft, fresh with new paint, while white-flannelled sportsmen add colour to the grassy recreation grounds. Spring has most certainly arrived. Nature, in her wonderful manner, has cast from the world the drab clpak of winter, and a new season filled with the glories of youth stands smilingly before us.