Beautiful SPRING morning! We're all going to get outside to enjoy it because the forecast is for more sleet, snow, rain and gloom the rest of the week.

I've been hearing robins, for a couple of weeks now. Some folks thought it was wishful thinking, but this morning they were out in our trees singing up a hymn or two. There is no bare ground to speak of, so they weren't very visible. I did catch this one in our birch tree by the driveway. She kept her back turned to the sun, I think it was her way of showing her disgust at our belated spring. It was 14 degrees here early this morning.

I had the following from Evelyn Richer a few minutes ago:

We don't have the same melt down at all!  Usually we have a very nearly
clear cove down here by now... one year by my birthday the loon showed up to
see if the nest was open... This year the channel above us looks like it is
still frozen over, but the stretch in front of our place is open and clear
for about the width of the channel and that's it... the ducks and geese are
still coming in; common and hooded mergansers, woodies, mallards, the otter,
beavers and muskrats.  The open channel is just past our land... very often
by now it will be approaching the small island.

Last year by the first week in April we had Phil Beattie here excavating our
ponds and I was transplanting some last minute perennials.  We still have a
foot and a half of snow on all our property this year!

I think Ray is right the seasons are shifting here on Joe's...

We went to Burlington yesterday and they have no snow at all!!  It was nice
to visit the "real April"!! We could even smell spring over there.  They had
grass and open water... we sat and watched the cormorants, ospreys and a
very big muskrat above Colchester... That was the "pill" that we needed!!

Well, I hope to enjoy the blue sky and sunshine today... I am sick of
imagining that those little white things in the air are little white
butterflies!!!   :) 

Blessings, Evelyn and Ray Richer