Our winter is trying to pass … like an oversized kidney stone. You have to admit we’ve been taking a brutish hibernal hit, twixt 2017 and 2018. Even this week’s official calendrical transition into spring is getting dumped on by the skies above. True spring will never feel so good. To even feel the 60s!
Despite this long-lingering frigidity and bouts of frozen precip, I’ll nonetheless offer some ponds with silver linings. I’m talking vernal ponds.
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