Well, it’s been awhile and now Spring has sprung and it is April!

Work has stayed a bit intense and when I finish, despite wanting to write or share photos, I am out of steam for more time at the computer in the evening.

It is light now until after 8 p.m. so nice to go out in the fresh air for an evening dawdle in the woods with Bear. I miss snowshoeing but I am enjoying having to don less “gear”! The hat/gloves/boots/snowshoes routine does sometimes get a bit much but oh, what a glorious time I had this Winter making and maintaining the paths and watching Bear and Auggie enjoy them.

Rewinding a little, this is what it looked like the first day of Spring: March 20.

Lots of ground, but still many patches of snow.

A couple of days later and very little snow…

… just enough for Bear to lie on and lick! Karl loved to do that also.

The driveway looks quite different than it did December through mid-March. After 3 months of mostly white ground it is still a surprise to see bare ground. When there was so much snow, it felt like it could never all go away.

Now there is sunshine and even hints of new green on the ground!

April!