The snow is melting! Wonderful. There is still plenty of snow but
there are a few bare spots in the yard. Winter might have been hard
on the fruit trees. It was at least -46 F a number of nights and
several people said it was -50 F. Going below -40 F kills fruit
trees. Winter weather is ending later and later the last 4 years.
End of May last year. I lost about half my fruit trees years last
year. Old-timers told me there have been killer frosts every month
of the year in the past.