An eastern phoebe is pictured. (Scot Stewart photo)
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
When dealing with weather in the Upper Peninsula in March and April, life ls filled with uncertainty. Even after weeks of mild, dry weather, a sudden snowstorm is always a possibility. Spring moves like a car driven by a new driver just learning how to use a clutch. Never too smooth, full of surprises, it jerks and yanks at maple sap, flowers trying hard to time their opening to the appearance of the pollinators and at the birds hoping to find open waters, active insects and bare ground to find enough food to charge up again to claim a territory or continue on farther north.