markers

it is the twenty-second of february...

and it is raining...

a year ago it was snowing but not today...

as of yesterday there are dandelions in my yard...okay they are a "spring" flower...except it isn't meteorological spring yet much less astronomical spring...

the sap buckets ( or sap carafes as an important contributor to this blog prefers ) are out on the sugar maples...sugar maple sap begins to run when daytime temperatutres are above freezing and nightime temperatures below, which is where we are at right now...except that is march weather...same time the frost laws come into effect on the roads...something seems a tad early...

the winter wheat in my back yard is looking dismayed at best...and, for the third year running, i will predict another dismal harvest despite having planted freshly purchased seed last autumn...there has been sub-zero cold ( fahrenheit ) however with nothing like the amount of snow the wheat needs for unsulation...last year's snow came too late...after the cold...

this year's snow, in wheat terms, has been a joke...so, the deniers can tell me things are just fine so shut up and drive...well..those who create the denial myth stand to lose wealth and power if we actually address the issue...and those who agree with them just aren't paying attention...they should, perhaps, spend a little more time looking at what is going on out in the back yard