Spring

[branchandroot]

NGL, I find it appealingly ironic that this year, when people are, alternately, locked indoors and can't see it or desperate to get outdoors for just a while and see it, we are having a properly sequenced spring, for once. Steady warming through March, interrupted by five inches of snow toward the end that melted off in two days. Wild up and down in April. The trees are all budding out, the willows are green, the forsythia are flowering, and we had hail this morning. The seasonal ponds and pools are all full, everywhere with grass or hay is very green, and it's so blustery that I nearly got pushed onto the shoulder twice during my battery-charging drive today.

Spring!

ETA: And then we had another hail storm and a sun-blizzard. Spring!

(At least in Michigan.)