We went from snow and ice to mud and shoots in just a few weeks. This was a cold and snowy winter, unlike the past few years. This transition of thaw and melt is fascinating; the Hudson river went from a milky white body with slow-moving Coast Guard ice choppers creating a narrow vein for barges to pass through, to a chopped ice thoroughfare reminiscent of a fountain soda with crushed ice, to choppy muddy blue wavelets looking free and wild lapping on the shores. The waterfalls went from frozen luminescent sculptures to raging white rapids. And the fields and woods are now dotted with brilliant green moss and flattened yet emerald green Christmas ferns that seem shockingly colorful after the months of white.
Winter aconite’s yellow flowers held bees on one warm day, and the snow drops are now free of snow. The skunk cabbage is warming up in the mud, and the green shoots are pushing out of the ground every where you look. It is about to be a complete riot, and I can’t wait. It is today, now, March 20th at 10:46am ET.
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