Happy Birthday Elsa

les anges lisent ton livre quand donc furent ouvertes les pages ? Guennadi Aïgui (trad. Léon Robel) Roses d'Eteri in Le cahier de Véronique

читают ангелы книгу твою коѓда это былираскрыты страницы? Γеннадий Aйти Тетрадь Вероники

 

Happy birthday Elsa ! You came with the winter snowdrops on a snowy day. That was six years ago… 

We like to read this book from Tadao Miyamoto, "Boku to Okaasan", a present from Elsa's grandmother. This image always reminds me on her birth day. The snow by the window and the new born child and mother resting.

 Felt snowdrop, precious birthday present to Elsa from my friend Anuschka.

[…]

A northern wind had frozen the grass;

Its blades were hoar with crystal rime,

Aglint like light-dissecting glass

At beam of morning-prime.

From hidden bulb the flower reared up

Its angled, slender, cold, dark stem,

Whence dangled an inverted cup

For tri-leaved diadem.

Beneath the ice-pure sepals lay

A triplet of green-pencilled snow,

Which in the chilled-aired gloom of day

Stirred softly to and fro.

[…]

Walter de la Mare

From The Snowdrop in The fleeting and Other Poems