Vagaries of Spring in Virginia's Blue Ridge

 At our high altitude nature follows its own course. Seasons come both earlier and later than lowland climes – and the Appalachian spring this year is no exception. It’s mud time!

                              The sun was warm but the wind was chill.

                              You know how it is with an April day

                              When the sun is out and the wind is still,

                              You’re one month on in the middle of May.

                              But if you so much as dare to speak,

                              A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,

                              A wind comes off a frozen peak,

                              And you’re two months back in the middle of March.

                                                                          Two Tramps in Mud Time, Robert Frost