Snow on the tulips

I have a proverb about the climate here: "Snow until Tax Day; frost until Mother's Day."

A different proverb applies to yesterday's weather: "Every rule has an exception."

First came the wind. As I watched out my classroom window, the power lines twirled like jump ropes. Then rain blew in, then snow came down sideways. From my recliner last night, I watched the snow stack up in layers on the window.

Hopefully, nothing of importance froze. I didn't think to unhook the hoses from the spigot last night. And my tulips look pretty sad this morning.

Oh, well. We desperately needed the moisture and spring snows melt fast. Forecast high today is 59 and the weather is supposed to climb back into the 70s tomorrow. In a great blessing, the ground temperature was high enough that we don't have to scoop. Hooray!

And I hope that a twist on another proverb will also prove true: "May snow brings June berries."