Tentative Spring

And so, here it is SPRING! as per the calendar, anyway. The winter came and the snow is gone (pretty sure, of that, but I could be wrong. I always imagine that there is a small patch of snow hiding in the woods somewhere that hangs on, sort of like those persistent leaves, the ones that don't ever fall off of the trees but are parchment colour and dry. They whisper and shimmy in the wind but never fall. I wonder what happens to them when new leaves grow in the spring, but forget to look. Do they stay on? Are they the same ones that remain persistent year after year or are they replaced? These cogitations are what I get for walking dogs, I guess.)

And with spring comes the need for another update I suppose. I'll have to check out the pictures I have and see what can be done.

The muddy road ahead
Mud season!! The end of my road, before it reaches the black top, gets very rutted and muddy when the snow melts each spring. It is always an adventure driving the car through the mud, swinging from side to side and hoping another car doesn't come along going the other way.
Sometimes the ruts are quite deep, and then it is great to have a high car so the undercarriage doesn't scrape. Sometimes mud season happens all at once, with days of muddy roads and slippery driving. Other times it happens in stages: mud, freeze, mud, freeze. When the mud freezes cars can get trapped if it doesn't thaw during the day and if the mud is deep enough.