spring

Even though it's been Spring according to the calendar for many, many days, is it finally here in Mid-Michigan?

I'm not a fan of winter, but one of its most admirable qualities is that it covers up the mess of the smokers. Pictured below is the "smoking kettle" outside our building. During the winter it is mostly covered with snow and the cigarette butts are lost in the white splendor, but come spring this is what we have to look at and smell.

This morning to celebrate Spring on "The Beatles Breakfast Jam" we featured "Here Comes the Sun" & "I'll Follow the Sun". The story goes that George Harrison went over to Eric Clapton's house during the first few days of Spring.  ...

Spring offically arrived Sunday night at 7:19. For me it came a few days ago out at the farm when I heard and spotted the first Red Wing blackbird of the season. Good-bye Winter.

Snow and ice may be blanketing a good part of the country, but the nationís foremost groundhog says better weather is coming soon. Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow this February 2nd, as he emerged from Gobbler's Knob, which suggests we will have an early spring. Since 1887, Phil has only predicted 15 early springs. The StormFax Weather Almanac pegs Philís accuracy as a prognosticato