Last Spring Time Lapsed To Get You Ready For The Change In Scenery This Year

Last spring in St. Albans: How it began

I love to watch nature. It's part of the DNA of a person born and raised in Vermont, I guess. 

During a change of seasons, mostly spring and fall, you see changes every day in the way the landscape looks. Sometimes the change is so subtle you have to really stare to find it. Surprisingly often, it's a jarring change from the day before. 

Spring is especially like that in Vermont. Each spring unfolds differently than all the others. Each one has its own personality.  But it always does arrive, sometimes enthusiastically, sometimes grudgingly. 

Last spring wore both those faces. The first half of spring had to be dragged kicking and screaming into Vermont. Frequently, we had snowy setback in the spring of 2022. Including one on April 19 that buried my yard - and some new daffodils - under 5.1 inches of snow, 

During that slow first half of spring, plants soldiered on. The grass ever so slowly turned green.  Daffodil shoots timidly rose upward from their winter slumber. Winter weather and snow be damned. 

The second part of spring galloped in. The season seamed to rebel against that April 19 snow. The weather moderated immediately after that, then turned downright warm as we headed into May. (We'll just ignore that last brief snowy setback on April 27.

By mid-May, we were in the grip of a mid-summer type hot spell. Temperatures for three days in a row got into the upper 80s, and stayed on the sort of warm, humid side after that. 

And how last spring ended. Deep snow on the ground
now, but soon enough it will look like this in Vermont. 

If anything in nature hadn't made its seasonal transition by then, it hurried up and put on its summer clothes. Well before Memorial Day, spring was over, summer started prematurely.

Gawd knows how this year will work out. It's starting out with a lot of stubborn snow on the ground, but that doesn't mean all that much. 

All I know is this spring will be unique, just like all the others. I've already started taking daily photos. 

The first days of meteorological spring in Vermont have been challenging. As I wrote this on March 15, there's 17 inches of snow on the ground. That's far deeper that at any point during the just-ended winter. 

But, hope springs eternal, pardon the pun. That 17 inches of snow has already started to melt away. Soon, there will be daffodils, then lilacs, then a lush green landscape. It'll happen in a blink of an eye.

So, for encouragement, what follows is how last spring went in St. Albans, Vermont, so you can see for yourself. I hope it gets you revved up for what this spring will eventually brin. 

Here's the video. Click on this link to view, or if you see the image below, click on that: