[Magdalen] Spring is sprung

[Charles Wohlers]

HA!!! We still have ~3 feet of snow on the ground and, while it was well 
above freezing yesterday, it's supposed to go down to -10F tonight. The past 
six weeks have been incredibly cold everywhere in the Northeast US. Only 
sign of Spring is that it's beginning to look like sugaring weather, 
finally.

And, last night at 2:30AM we got a call from our freeze alarm in Mass. that 
the boiler was out of water (again). Have a call in to our neighbor there - 
if she can't take care of it, I'll have to drive down there later today, as 
it's supposed to be plenty cold there tonight also. Typically in Mass. by 
now we would normally have daffodils peeking up,  but they're still buried 
under nearly 3 feet of snow. (As of today, Boston should set an all-time 
winter snowfall record).

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: Roger Stokes
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 6:37 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: [Magdalen] Spring is sprung

Yesterday out walking with a group I saw on a grass bank snowdrops,
daffodils and crocuses.  This brings to mind the verse
Spring is spring, the grass is is
I wonders where the birdies is.
The bird is on the wing, they say, but that's absurd.
How can the bird be on the wing when the wing is on the bird?

Here is a report of more than a wing being on the bird.  It was a weasel
on the bird which a photographer was able to snap.  I am glad to report
that after bird and load had landed he walked towards them, the weasel
dismounted (probably somewhat surprised by his flight) and the bird flew
away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31711446

Roger