Springtime!

                After Thursday’s (February 2^nd) phenology, I was feeling confident that Punxsutawney Phil had mistakenly been frightened back into his den for another 6 weeks of winter, and even us in cold old Montana were in the cusp of spring!  In my site, there was only one measly pile of snow left. I noticed that, along the stream bank, the grass was beginning to turn green. The ground was muddy and melty, and everything had that feeling of newness that comes only with spring. Moss had grown over the root ledge and the base of the tree, reminding me of a West coast rainforest. Ohhh spring fever! How easily I catch it!