Resume

Yesterday was by far the nicest day so far with temperatures topping out in the middle 70s or so and without much in the way of wind.

But I didn't ride.  The resumption of the season came today.  It wasn't quite as nice and the wind howled.

Still, any day on the bicycle is a good day and today was a good day.

It was so nice yesterday that it got me to thinking about when we are going to see signs of life from the plant life here on the tundra.  I set out to visit the three different shrubs which have over the past several seasons been the first sign of plants coming back to life.  These are those shrubs which get white flowers before they get leaves and before anything else gets leaves.

Not yet.  Here's the one that looked the most promising but really, not yet.

So maybe one last bow to winter.  It was so awful here that the local news reported that local units of government were in danger of using up all of the road salt that they had on hand and that acquiring additional would be absurdly expensive.

Roseville went with crushed rock at the end of our street.

The crushed rock hasn't gone very far.  Street sweeping is going to get lots of that but the stuff plowed up into the yard isn't going to be within range of the sweepers.  This isn't even the largest concentration but it is a spot that well demonstrates that for all of the yards up at that end of the street this is not going to be a summer for going bare foot.  Those things are sharp.