Poppies and White Rabbits

It is very wet, although it doesn't look it. droplets can be noted with close observation.It's raining again and the temperatures are arctic. Several downpours have turned into hail. When the sun comes out it is a weak and pallid attempt, devoid of warmth. 

We took advantage of a break in the weather, put on our waterproof boots and woolly hats and took Spike to the soccer field but it was more of a bog than a field, and it was too cold to stand still so we had a quick walk and bundled ourselves back into the car as the rain began again. 

The poppies are unfazed by the conditions and blooming in abundance around the perimeter of the field. The redbud looks nice against the briefly clearing sky and the green grass. 

We saw two women getting an extraordinary number of dogs out of two ordinary sized cars, and marveled at how well behaved the dogs were, standing quietly as the troops were mustered and leashes  sorted. We saw them a little later in the small children's playground apparently being trained for something, or perhaps just getting out of the rain which was starting again....

So March has gone out like a lion and April isn't any better, but to change the subject, somebody  once told me that  one should say white rabbit three times for good luck on the first of the month.  I thought it might be appropriate on this April Fool's Day to think of Patrick Amiot's sculpture of Lewis Carrol's White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland* . He is seen at the beginning of the story carrying a watch and muttering, Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!. He also says, the hurrier I go they behinder I get. 
The White Rabbit is sometimes seen as a symbol of the anxieties and stressors that can come with the passage of time and the demands of society.