The March lion roars

We did not get the big snow storm that was predicted for the Midwest. Instead we woke up to ice on the trees and plants and car and driveway and on and on. It's been windy but not dangerously so. Now, at 4:30 p.m. the temperature is 27 degrees F. (-2.77 C.) and it is snowing harder than we'd prefer.

This is that moment of March madness when the weather can wreak havoc in an afternoon. It is especially worrying since everything seemed to have made it through the winter. Despite what the calendar says, winter is not over until it's over. A lesson that we are all too familiar with in Wisconsin.

Comments

[Julie Siegel]

No kidding!

[Lisa at Greenbow]

Brrrrrrrrr it looks cold up there. My son sent pictures from Jefferson, WI where he lives. It looks a lot like at your house. This doesn't look like spring. I am hoping that here it won't freeze off the buds on my white lilac. It hasn't produced for several years due to winter die back. It is just recovering. Must keep my fingers crossed.

[Erin @ The Impatient Gardener]

Funny how I seem to have to learn this lesson again every couple years. Apparently no amount of practical experience is enough to bring clarity to a gardener anxious to get out there!