Sunday April greetings, Extravagant Ones!
As the attached photos depict, it is now "tween" time here in Montana--I just arriving here late last evening for my monthly vigil after having had the privilege during the three prior days of attending the National Wildlife Federation's annual confab (where the no-nonsense of global warming and equally important task of getting kids out into nature [as we used to do as kids] were the subjects of the day(s)) in Houston as an alternate delegate for our own beloved Montana Wildlife Federation (whose 75th annual event is to be this coming weekend in Helena--never a dull moment, gang!).
The first of the attached photos shows just how early spring is entering onto the Montana scene. Compared to last year, when ice and ground snow pack were the stories this same time of the year, the story this year is of little ground snow mass--in fact, when I flew in from the East last evening (Houston via Minneapolis, of all weird routes), I was taken by the near total dearth of mountain snow on the Rockies' Continental Divide.
The balance of the pics bear evidence that spring, indeed, is nearby in these here parts: In the first you can see the branches of our mountains' only deciduous pine tree, the larch pine, beginning to bud out; ditto in the second for our backyard's hawthorne bushes (thornusplantus humungus); and, in the last, you can see the green beginning to return to (y)our front yard's casting lawn.
Temperature-wise things are yet coolish here; in fact, as I awoke this morning a light snow was falling perfectly attesting that we are, indeed, "tween" the throes of winter and the glory days of Extravaganza 2010--just 70 (getting longer) days away now!
More to follow this coming week from the scene of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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