This afternoon we discovered the first violets that we have seen this season. They were on our beach. Spring seems to be coming about two weeks early this year. The red oaks have tiny leaves now. Not so much the white oaks. the maples are in bloom and the blueberries have fat buds ready to blossom.

The day began with clouds, then after a two minute shower the sun was out by mid morning and we suffered through another sunny day in the low 20 degrees.

The black flies, however, are as bad as I have ever seen them be. We are being swarmed. At this rate they bshould be done by the long weekend. Too bad that the mosquitoes are showing an early presence.

We had a pair of humming birds here yesterday, but the first ones to show are usually passing through. they stopped at our twin berry shrubs, which are in full blossom.

The humidity the week has been extremely low. As a result our fire hazzard rating has been raised to HIGH.