Tiny spring peepers,

Sometimes known as pinkletinks,

Tell me spring is here.

Click to view YouTube video:  “Spring Peepers“

From Wikipedia:

A spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern USA and Canada.

The spring peeper is a small species, attaining an adult size between 0.75 inches (19 mm) and 1 inch (25 mm) long. They have a dark cross on their backs roughly in the shape of an “X” (thus the Latin name crucifer, meaning cross-bearer), though sometimes the marking may be indistinct. [...] This frog has a vocal sac located by its throat, which expands and deflates like a balloon to create a short and distinct peeping sound. Only males have the ability to make this loud high-pitched noise, and they use it to attract mates.

On Martha’s Vineyard, peepers are commonly called “pinkletinks”; in New Brunswick, Canada, they are called “tinkletoes.”

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Snow’s melting. Again.

Only small patches remain.

When will it return?

Jones Falls, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada

(photo by R.G.Daniel – March 25, 2007)

When it’s cold and wet,

nothing adds to all the fun

like some gusty winds.

YouTube video: “David Grisman and Jerry Garcia -- Dreadful Wind and Rain”

by Zooomabooma

Vernal equinox -

days and nights are now the same,

but still too damn cold.

YouTube video: Can -- Vernal Equinox

Winter is melting

We can see our driveway now

The lawn, not so much