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Week starting 15 March 2009
20 March, 2009
Spring? Maybe not...
The vernal equinox has arrived. The Ides of March!
I rushed outside to greet the sun!
Ok. Maybe rushed is a bit strong.
Started by putting on my winter coat, then I trudged out to the potyard stumbling on the trail that the dogs pack down going out there to harass the deer.
I have a distinct memory that last year at this time we had wet and soggy bits. I'm sure of it.
But no. I get out to the equipment yard, and what do I see? Snow. Snow stacked as high as the pot piles.
There are a few signs of spring. Faint. But in the silence of winter even a whisper is loud.
The small pond has water oozing into it. Verily, there is a frozen puddle in the bottom of the small pond.
And further out by the Aspen Wall there is a 6 foot circle of no snow. Probably originally created by an eddy of wind hitting the Wall, but today it was bare earth, or rather bare mud. There was a puddle in it, a foot across, and a terrifying quarter inch deep.
