The arrival of April 1st is a huge deal to me. It means that no matter how much is snows, it's

all going to melt soon! As I walked the path from the parking lot to my office this morning, I

noticed the aroma of skunk. With feet of snow still covering the ground, I welcomed this smell.

It meant that Mother Nature is waking up her children. From my office window, I see squirrels

shimmying up and down tree branches, crow calls echo from treetop to treetop and the chickadees

and robins return to the barren crab apple tree in hopes they may have missed a morsel of food.

I know that when I walk back down to my car in 4 hours, mud will tug at my boots and the wind will

gently toss my hair since there will be no hat in its way. Yes it must be spring time in Vermont!

However any fool who has lived in Vermont for more than a year knows that spring time in

Vermont is a perpetual April Fool's joke!

Breakfast anyone?Another photo from a series.