4-18-26 VERMONT: We came north yesterday through a T-storm in Mass. It’s almost as warm here as it was in NJ. Spring is quite advanced here for April, which is usually deep mud on the road and dirty, icy piles of snow under the eaves. The yard and gardens have already been cleaned up. There is no mud and no snow.
I put away the snow shovels, ice scrapers, driveway reflectors and ice melt, hopefully they will not be needed again this year. I took out one of Judy’s carts. I filled some dog holes. I will need dirt to fill others, an excuse to go to the nursery. One rose might be dead.
The upper pond is full and draining and very clear, and the brook has lots of forget-me-not and primrose just starting. The lower pond is not as clear, but has fish, crawfish, newts, tadpoles, but no turtles seen as yet.
Robins and white-throated sparrows are working the lawn, and Phoebe are in the air hunting bugs
New blooms: red maple, sugar maple, blood root, daffodil, crocus, snowdrops, pachysandra, hellebore.
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