On the South Shore, where the salt wind sighs, The
earth still whispers winter\u2019s last goodbye. In the hush
of dawn, silver touches the leaves, A final kiss of frost
\u2018neath the sheltering eaves.
Gardeners wait with hopeful, patient hands, For tender
shoots that crave the warmer sands. Tomatoes, pep-
pers, basil\u2019s fragrant green\u2014 Hold them back till
June\u2019s full moon is seen.
When the Strawberry Moon climbs high and bright, It
marks the end of cold\u2019s reluctant fight. Then plant
with joy beneath the warming sky, The South Shore
summer waits\u2014no more frost\u2019s sigh.
So heed the old ways, passed from kin to kin, After
that silver glow, let the growing begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On the South Shore, where the salt wind sighs, Theearth still whispers winter\u2019s last goodbye. In the hushof dawn, silver touches the leaves, A final kiss of frost\u2018neath the sheltering eaves.Gardeners wait with hopeful, patient hands, For tendershoots that crave the warmer sands. Tomatoes, pep-pers, basil\u2019s fragrant green\u2014 Hold them back tillJune\u2019s full moon is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1004365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233,536],"tags":[537,538,133],"class_list":["post-1004364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-233","category-poetry","tag-frost","tag-poetry","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004366,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004364\/revisions\/1004366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themastheadnews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}