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Spring Peeper
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The year was 1997. Spring had been with us for some time. The frogs were singing their love calls. The red-wing blackbirds were staking their territories. Trees were beginning to bud out. Then, like a practical joke, on April 1st., twenty-two inches of snow. The biggest snow storm of the year. A not-so-subtle reminder by Mother Nature to take nothing for granted...