Spring at latitude 36°N

Sure Signs of Spring

• The daffodils are up and blooming
• We have 30 degree weather one day, and two days later it is 70 degrees!
• The oak trees have shed all of the brown leaves from last fall.
• The peepers are singing in the ditches and in the ponds.
• Where the pavement hasn't crumbled on the country roads, the potholes are multiplying.
• The marten house is up and open.  The scouts should be here any day.
• The trees all have fuzzy green tips.  One weeping willow looks like beautiful strings of green pearls.
• The skunks are up and out.  Dead skunks on the highway are a sure sign of spring in the country.
• The children are playing outside.
• I'm curled up in a chair on the porch catching the rays along side the cat.