APRIL SNOW

After four days of rain and snow it cleared to blue sky today, and although there was no accumulation in Warren, a thousand feet up on the mountain about five inches of snow fell, quickly melting in this April sun. The pictures show the extent of the prior canopy foliage as well as the dog investigating some bear tracks. A few branches snapped off because of the additional strain but overall I think this will be gone in two days with few ill affects. I'm not sure what will become of the cabbage, spring azure, tiger swallowtail and red admiral butterflies that had emerged, nor the flowers-mostly violets, dandelions and adders tongue as well as domesticated varieties, nor of the buds and flowering trees , but it looks so far that they all will survive unharmed. It was 72 degrees on the 20th, and in the high thirties/low forties for a couple days, so strange weather indeed. The natives tell me this is not unusual but the Buffalo news claims that a measurable snowfall like this had only occurred three times since 1884. At any rate, with temps back in the fifties I expect spring to come along any day now. March and April simply changed places.