March 24, 2019 -- This morning the temperature was balmy and the breeze light. Bird songs, absent for months, could be heard once again. Snow is melting, and spring is definitely on its way. One can even smell the resins [...]

Some northern folks are, like schizophrenic. They endure a miserable summer up here but come fall they’re as gone as the reindeer sausage vendor on a cruise ship dock. Gone, for someplace like Arizona or Florida or Belize. Snowbirds, some [...]