SPRING
Well, it has certainly been a very strange winter! We had one of the rainiest summer and fall that I can remember. The irrigation system that we installed to protect my precious plantings from shriveling up in summer heat was never turned on and the lake remained fuller this winter than it has before because of all the rain. And then we got snow. Not just once or twice, but several times over the winter. One accumulation was as much as 8 inches. Not a heck of a lot by Vermont or Colorado standards, but enough to slow things down considerably. We broke a 100-year old record by having the most consecutive days where it did not go above 20 degrees and, in fact, many many mornings when the thermometer read 20. I thought (hoped) it was stuck.
But NOW the daffodils are coming up, the temps are expected to be in the 50's and 60's, which means that the forsythia will be out in a couple of weeks. Which means that by the end of April, all the trees will be pretty much leafed out and the world will be green again. Wonderful views from raw land will be obscured, but the dreary gray days will be gone and the feeling of renewal, of spring, will be in the air. I love the longer days and the feeling of spring. Here's hoping it will be a good year for everyone.