Early to mid April, waiting for the taxman

The person who knows about prairie burns has left town, but today I discovered that the city recently did a spring burn on their native plants area at Como Lake. Burns are supposed to discourage the invasives and encourage the natives. It was a really nice day to circle the lake and observe nature coming back to life. There were birds about, mallards and even a pair of wood ducks swimming about enjoying the sunshine. There were even quite a number of those human creatures taking in one of the nicest day in about six months. The weather guys are cooking up a snow event for the weekend, but as we know, snow this time of year is an empty threat and doesn't need to be shoveled.

The trees are budding here on the tundra. These are future leaves springing from the branches of a maple tree.

Hurray for April.  Except for that tax thing.