"Winding Down in WA"

Amusing to read Kim Palka's column with the title above in the Midland Daily News online. She drove from Spokane to Port Orchard, WA to visit a cousin. (Wonder if she took the ferry across Puget Sound? That's always fun).

She mentions robins, buds on trees, and bulbs starting to come up. Well yes, spring gets a much earlier start here than Midland, where for me it was seeing the crocuses coming up through the snow in March. But it's a very long, drawn out start very unlike Midland's comparatively rapid switch from snow to soggy soil to sun, and without the delicious smell of the warming soil.

But, as she no doubt discovered right after submitting that column, at least through April we are subject to sudden plunges right back into winter.

(And I see from the comments section that there's another former Midlander out here.)