Spring is in the air

ADAM Shelton snapped this cute pic of a two-hour-old lamb with its mum getting checked out by her paddock mates. The newborn eventually had to be removed to another paddock as her new friends wouldn’t leave her alone, according to Mr Shelton.

We thought readers might enjoy these cute photos of lambs and a poem by Margaret Jeune to remind us that, despite some mixed weather conditions this week, spring is here!

THESE cute lambs enjoying a gambol in the warm spring sunshine were captured by Gordon Henry on his way home from Levin.

LAEL Marshall from Ohau snapped his lamb enjoying the sun with its mother.

A tui calls above me
A monarch butterfly briefly flits about
Bees and wax eyes come to sample my camellias
My freesias gradually open
And there are buds on my cherry trees
The sun makes a welcome appearance
And dries out the ground
After weeks of rain
Its local body election time
Would-be politicians vie
For a seat on councils
Controversy abounds at candidates meetings
And in the papers
There's a sit-in at Foxton's cenotaph by local iwi
And a hearing to sort out Levin's landfill
Which is leaking leachate into a nearby stream
A circus big top comes to the Weraroa Domain
Food trucks arrive to tempt the palates of locals
Daylight saving steals an hour from us
And the race is on to collect 24 Little Gardens from New World
It's spring time in the Horowhenua
And both mayhem and magic abound

Margaret Jeune