Welcome to this year's Vernal Equinox

In the Northern Hemisphere, it's the first day of Spring. The lack of snow cover is making us giddy. Plus, March is known for being a windy time of year and that's what we've got today. We've joined the crew in the Hundred Acre Wood for a blustery day. All told, despite the breezes, the weather is nice enough  that we saw a couple of motorcycles being ridden on the local roads.

late March bud burst

Photo by J. Harrington

Soon we'll be watching for and then enjoying the greening of the countryside. Undoubtedly, we'll try again  this year to get some wildflowers to grow on our Anoka sand plain hillside. In fact, we're hoping against hope 🤞that one or two of the pasque flowers we planted several years ago may actually bloom again. The dogs will soon start to enjoy longer walks since wind chill should no longer be part of the daily forecast. It remains to be seen if we'll actually get any sort of bud burst this month. Even in the North Country, that's been known to happen from time to time, although it's not a regular feature of March, unlike the little lame  balloon man.

[in Just-]

By E. E. Cummings

in Just- 

spring          when the world is mud- 

luscious the little 

lame balloonman 

whistles          far          and wee 

and eddieandbill come 

running from marbles and 

piracies and it's 

spring 

when the world is puddle-wonderful 

the queer 

old balloonman whistles 

far          and             wee 

and bettyandisbel come dancing 

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and 

it's 

spring 

and 

         the 

                  goat-footed 

balloonMan          whistles 

far 

and 

wee

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