spring green tree

…is busting out of the trees around the towns of St Paul and Minneapolis – all the more welcome and special and anticipated in a climate where most of the year is getting ready for winter, winter, or the dregs of winter – but lately the winters have been wimpy global-warming versions that don’t come close to the extreme sub-zeroes, it-hurts-to-inhale-through-your-nose kind of winters I remember as a kid.