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My Turn: Hope springs eternal
DANIEL BROWN
Published: 2/2/2021 12:22:30 PM
It’s been seven years since I moved away from the Pioneer Valley, but I still remember when springtime arrives there. First, the crocuses pop out of the snow, bringing color to the bleak winter landscape. The maple sugar houses begin burning their long wooden planks signaling time for my annual pilgrimage to Gould’s Sugarhouse for a ceremonial breakfast of sausage and waffles smothered in butter and syrup. The Red Sox take the field and we fans rekindle the joys of yelling at our television sets during the post-season.
The peepers, sadly missing in New Mexico, peep their splendid evening song and fresh green grass lines one of my favorite spots on earth, the Connecticut River Valley in Gill. Those living in Shelburne or Turners Falls get serenaded at night by the roar of the rivers cascading over their dams. By mid-May, the trees, having sprouted their new leaves, show the brightest green of the sea