Even with temperatures dipping lower at night these last few days, the bloom is on the buds. After a few false moments of way early winter warming, green shoots are everywhere. Leaves are popping. Color pokes out roadside from early irises, hyacinths and yellow daffodils, and in side yards and lawns everywhere, full-on brilliant blooming forsythia. Let’s just hope the frosty morning temperatures don’t kill off some of these early achievers.
When April with his showers sweet with fruit
The drought of March has pierced unto the root
And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: Prologue
Enjoy the days and color as it comes in. Soon enough the season will shift and everyone will complain about the heat. Or the Aprils showers. Following are a few seasonal notes.
— Pine Grove Lakes holds its Easter Egg Hunt for residents this coming Saturday, March 31 at 10 a.m. (rain date is April 1).
— Sloatsburg holds its popular Easter Egg Hunt at St. Mary’s Villa, Saturday, April 7, beginning at 1 p.m.
