Tomorrow around 11:30 a.m. spring arrives in Evergreen and it can’t come soon enough. According to the dictionary, spring is ” the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November”.

Mule deer even appear a little frustrated with spring's cold arrival

I am wondering if the bearer of the vernal equinox might have it’s hemisphere messed up this year. Here it is about 8:30 at night and I just finished throwing about twelve inches of snow all around the yard so I can get out of the driveway tomorrow morning before day break to slip my way to the airport about fifty-five miles away.

We were teased recently by some fairly nice weather so this harbinger of spring has been a little harder to take after a cold winter full of unrelenting ice and the predictable three to five day snow cycle.

About three thousand feet below  in Denver tiny shoots , sprouts and dormant mats of grass are showing a wonderful shade of green.

Our spring  up high announces its arrival by displaying a feathery pallet of winged-ones along with a few deer and elk looking for nourishment on the southern exposures. Today was a sure sign as a flock of Evening Grosbeaks  came through checking out the feeders.

Even though their presence was scattered throughout the day, the colorful birds were sure nice to look at through the flurry of snowflakes.

The Evening Grosbeaks at least add a little color to our rather white springs.

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