Apr 03 2007
What happened to spring?
Ah, Maine, how I love ya and yer wonky weather. Things had been warming up lately; for the past week or so, we’ve finally seen the deer we’d been told would frequent the grounds - counted up to 14 at one point, all hanging out munching on the newly-revealed grasses. Saturday morning I discovered a woodchuck-looking critter scuffling around in a flower garden:
… staring me down through the dining room window before making a dive for a nice big hole in the ground at the base of one of the garden walls (lovely).
Yesterday it all changed. Wet flakes, colder temps. This morning I awoke to a winter wonderland:
Lovely scene, but for early April I’d prefer the mid-40s and 50s we saw over the weekend. Even North Carolina is conspiring against us… we’re taking a long weekend trip to the Greensboro/High Point and Asheville areas as a kind of celebration for selling our MA house (closing was a couple weeks ago, several months earlier than we had feared, yay!). The weather there yesterday and today? Near 80, sunny. The weather when we’re there later this week? Barely breaking 60 (and according to one forecast, not even hitting 50 over the holiday weekend). Fortunately Husband and I prefer temps at the 60-degree end of the scale vs. 80 degrees and up (one of the reasons we’re heading to NC in early April instead of later in the year)…. and I figure 60 degrees is still better than 38 degrees here in Maine. Plus, they’ll all have green grass and flowers at this point, too. Can’t wait!
