Lilly wrote:

I'm beginning to doubt if Spring will be just a date on the calendar.
After this weekend's foot of heavy wet March snow, heavy and wet enough
the snowblower was choking, it seems like a pipe dream. Then the
weather guy says more on the way for this weekend? Argh! Make it stop!!

in the northern fringes of Zone 5...

Last year my brother in Maine claimed that they had a milder winter
than we
did... He may have been yanking my chain. Well at least it is Spring
in one
week - with or without snow.

Spring arrived in Nova Scotia last year, on or about, August 15th. Fall
began on September 1.
--
derek