The month of April was a full blown gray, drizzling canvas of gloom..at least in Minnesota. If you live in sunny Colorado or bright and cheerful Florida I imagine April offered you a different experience. But here in the Midwest many of us called foul.
No snow? No cold with sunshine? No glorious blizzards with inches and inches of snow to play on and with? Nope! This isn’t what we signed up for.
The first few days of May trickled in with a bit of sun, a bit of gray, and 60 mph hour wind. And then, the clouds parted, the thermometer rose 20 degrees and – boom – summer arrived!
I imagine there have been years when a real spring occurred. Where temperatures hovered around 50 and 60 while it rained at night and the buds on the trees evolved over weeks rather than days. I will hold onto that vision next year when March rolls around.
This was not that year.
This was a year where spring never came and summer arrived early.
Embracing Next 