Getting Ready For Spring

A short trip outside will tell you all the signs are pointing to spring. The birds are returning, the pussywillows are blooming, and tulips are begining to poke through their beds. Water is pooling on top of the ice on the lake, the snow is starting to dissappear. Spring is in the air.

Well almost. The air is still maintaining around the freezing mark, so much so the maple sap is flowing very slowly. Kind of natures own way of doing a hatchet job on the global warming everyone's been talking about. Or has it? Seems like the we're losing more of the inbetween days, and dealing with more extremes.

All told though, it's been a long winter. We started getting dumped on with the white stuff in early December, and it came down steady after that. I'm ready for warm temps, and green leaves. I talked with a guy yesterday who made a good point though. With everything white, you don't have to swat mosquitoes. Everything with a grain of salt here in Vermont!