Woke up to snow for the first time in months.  Not sure if this is the March miracle I’ve been hoping for – it’s been an unusual weather year, overly warm and overly dry – but I’ll take it.  Of course, snow likely means that all the fruit trees that have flowered early because of the warm weather will likely not set any fruit, but this is actually fairly normal.  I only have a good fruit year maybe one year out of four, and the last one was a long time ago.  It’s been so warm and dry that I forgot (or neglected) to take down the poultry netting that keeps the grosbeaks and robins out of the blueberries.

My mistake.  Fortunately, though it was loaded with snow, it hadn’t entirely collapsed, though some of the support poles were bent, and I was able to cut it all down and set it aside for re-installation in the spring.  More snow on the way tonight…