Winter To Summer In 48 Seconds

A season in Vermont. How it started....

Yesterday, I returned to working one of my jobs at a Burlington office, after almost exclusively doing that job from home due to the pandemic. 

It's been deemed safe to return to the office, so the Powers That Be moved me back. Whatever. Fine.

While working from home, I decided it would be fun to document the change of seasons. My yard and gardeners were the perfect place to do that. 

On March 6, the snow was still deep on the ground, but a big thaw was forecast. So, starting that day and going on through June 9, I took a photo from approximately the same spot each day.

I strung all the photos into a video lasting just 48 seconds. It's at the bottom of this post. As always, to best view it, click on the arrow, then the YouTube logo to make the whole thing bigger and easier to see.

....how it ended.

It was an aggressive, early spring by Vermont standards, as you will see. But it was marked by a few really, really snowy interruptions, the biggest one popping up on April 21-22. 

After each setback, spring's progress resumed as if nothing had happened.

It's fun to watch the video, focusing on one part of the garden and landscape to watch it change. Then watch it again, focusing on a different spot. 

You see the little brook go from frozen to running fast, to running hardly at all. It bursts into flow briefly again here and there, and quickly recedes.  You can see the garden go from sparse and barren to overcrowded.  

Yeah, I'll have to do some thinning this autumn.

More than half way in, watch the hostas.  They really change fast! The Korean lilac on the left starts out buried in snow and ends in brilliant pink. 

Anyway, here's the video. Enjoy! For some reason it does not appear on mobile devices, so here's a link to the video as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efyDum6B2aM

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