Editorial of March 21, 2024
Burn Bans, Brush and Bonfires
Last weekend, in between the splashes of even more torrential rain, Saturday was brilliant. A welcome touch of spring was in the air, daffodils were setting forth on their early growing trials, sun was warming the grasses, newly arrived migrating birds were greeting each other—and, it is hoped, us—and buds were popping out on the trees, all part of the traditional, lengthy, letting go of winter. Then it rained again, and now the temperature has dropped to below freezing. Again, but maybe for the last time.
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