Spring has been v—e—r—y s—l—o—w in coming this year.
However, by the end of last week the majority of the winter’s accumulation of snow was gone and things were looking up. I even got to try out the grill Joan had bought me at Edmund’s Hardware Store ladies night back in December.
There was so little snow left that the treasure hunters were out. On the 11th (last Wed.) I ran into a fellow with a metal detector while I was walking the un-maintained section of Brimstone Corner Road. He had found four very old buttons by searching around one of the old cellar holes.
Then, on Sunday and Monday, we got two inches of frozen rain (i.e. ice pellets) and, for good measure, some 35 degree rain on top of that!
Spring be damned!
Today, Joan and Ben Pratt headed out on Gregg Lake to do the first water sampling of the year. The temperature was about 35 degrees and there was a stiff breeze blowing when they headed out about 9:30 this morning. The temperature was up to 45 degrees by mid-afternoon when they returned home from delivering the samples to the lab in Concord. They report that the water temperature was 4 degrees C from top to bottom!
Here are some random photos made over the past week.
Random Objects at the Willard Pond Boat Launch (11 April)
Joan's Vernal Pool (11 April)
Old Buttons (11 April)
Oh how cruel! New Grill (16 April)
Water Sampling Crew Heading Out (18 April)
Gregg Lake (18 April 2018)
Gregg Lake Panorama(18 April 2018, 5 frames))
