Patriots' Day (observed)

You'd think, where it represents an actual historical day, like Independence Day or Bastille Day or Cinco de Mayo, they could keep the damned holiday where it belongs...

Gray morning, but no prospect of significant rain.  We have entered that interregnum between thaw and green where brush fires lurk.  All the brown grass and dried leaves from last fall and winter-killed scrub and old coniferous needles, tinder for a careless cigarette butt or sparks along the tracks from a passing train.  No wonder the flash of a few flintlock muskets could touch off a war.

It ain't over 'til it's over

For all my comments about bare ground and open ponds, one of the weekend's snowmobile accidents has turned fatal.  Organ-donor type of thing, not wearing a helmet...