April showers bring May flowers
I’m definitely an old adage kind of guy. Our forebears used them to share information about nature before scientific knowledge was being taught in schools to make note of relationships that benefited them, prior to the times we live in now where we just go to the store to buy our food or lawn care products. Certainly we can and often do get a lot of rain in April, our first full month of spring, but plenty of flowers come out in April and other changes in our natural landscape in advance of the growing season. Chipmunks have woken up, and I am seeing them running along stone walls. The big snowstorm in March, which came as a surprise given how the winter started, slowed down at least temporarily the emergence and return of some animals. Recent warmer temps and rain have gotten things back on track. Spotted salamanders, spring peeper frogs and wood frogs will soon come out from the leaf litter on a rainy evening and make their march to small ponds for their annual spring mating.
