I've Felt The Coldness Of My Winter. I Never Thought It Would Ever Go.*

It’s a beautiful Spring day here in south-central Wisconsin. The trees are budding, the grass is greening, and the snow is falling.

The snow is falling.

It is falling all over the four square feet of land in front of the condo we rent.

I finally have a bit of space where I can have a garden, and damned if I’m not going to plant the crap out of that thing. Errrr...I’m not going to plant crap, but flowers. Maybe I’ll use crap as a fertilizer. That’s the green thing to do, right?

“Mom?” I asked the other day. “When can I start planting flowers?” Hey, I spent the last three years. What do I know?

“Oh, not until the end of May. You just can’t be sure there won’t be a freeze before then.”

The thing is, I’m ok with this. Because it’s not as though Winter will give Spring and Summer a miss and go straight on into Autumn. The signs of Spring are all around me.

Disclaimer: This is not representative of 

scientifically cromulent weather systems.

Grass and daffodils burst through the ground.

Granted, only to be bitch-slapped by Old Man Winter

The animals are mating.  In my front yard.

Hey kids!  Come look!  Biology!

And Mother Nature has given us a couple teasers of warm sunny days.

NOT YOURS! Yet. 

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