Today, I am traveling. I know what you’re thinking – hasn’t she had enough travel? Well, I’m on my way to see my oldest son in Colorado. I drove from Northern Wisconsin to the airport in Minneapolis – St. Paul. I was here by 10 a.m. It’s a three-hour drive. I was tired most of the way, but the drive was easy until I got to the cities, where people were racing by me going 80 mph on the highway. Crazy. At one point, I thought I’d be rear-ended! And I was going 67 mph – so I wasn’t going slow!
Anyway, as I drove across the Upper Midwest, the brown landscape struck me as so blah. Everything is brown and gray right now. There are no signs of the trees leafing out, nor are there any tufts of green grass. It’s brown.
But, I noticed two fields of newly born lambs about twenty miles apart. One farm even advertised the advent of “spring babies” during March and April weekends! Seeing the brown fields dotted with white lambs was cute and brought a smile to my face.
Thus, the lambs were the inspiration for my haiku today.
I fell in love with all the sheep we saw in Ireland last fall. Since we did a lot of hiking, we saw them almost every day grazing in the fields of Connemara, Killarney, and Wicklow National Parks. The photo I used with the haiku was from Ireland. We were there in September and did not see any newly born lambs. Plus, the landscape was green, as you’d imagine Ireland to be.
However, the sheep proved themselves to be cute as well. And I took plenty of photos of them.
Lambs are a sign of spring, aren’t they? Kismet, today’s prompt, means destiny.
To make today’s haiku work, I used the word seven, even though it’s eight days before Easter. But, the fields in Wisconsin and Minnesota will be as brown tomorrow (seven days before Easter) as they were today! And the lambs will still be little white animals in the fields.
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