Spring Tourney
Snowdrops arch like delicate green scimitars curving over their brown
earthen armour to deliver to the pageant a white coat of arms. Crisp Crocus pages
wearing tabards of purple and yellow, with green striped hose, are lost among the
sea of tall yellow Daffodil serfs. Ladies deliver streaming hazel favours to
the outstretched lances of winter confined knights, who now emerge to sit tall
in sunlit saddles; and as the sap again rises high within them the spring
tournament begins
