The Cusp of Spring.

4-18-24 VERMONT: There’s been melting here. The ice is gone. The snow is gone except for the piles under the eaves, which will probably last until May. The grass is green in a few spots. Perennials, some of them, are visible and a inch or two tall. Maple trees, hellebores, snowdrops, crocus are in bloom. The rose bushes have buds and a few very small leaves.

I saw two robins working the lawn, and a Phoebe catching some bug over the pond A pair of common mergansers were on the pond when we arrived, but the dogs chased them away. . 

Yesterday was in the fifties, but today we had intermittent, light rain. Next week, it may snow.  

Same Sun people will be here tomorrow AM for some final instructions.

The leading edge of spring has a foot in the door of April and will burst into the yard with warmth, color, aroma and bird song soon.

New blooms: hellebore, crocus. 

One of a pair of robins so it must be spring.

Common mergansers, the male is white with a dark green head, and the female grey with a red-brown head, both wear mullets.

Still snow to go, a good long, warm rain will do the job.

Hellebores just out from under the snow.

I saw this Pro-Choice ad in the New Yorker and was struck that the woman in Jail is also a uterus, Fallopian tubes and ovaries. Brilliant.