Day 19 NaPoWriMo 2022

Last night around ten the wind started howling, something wet started hitting the windows and before you knew it, snow! Well, the weather guys had been salivating over this nor’easter so it wasn’t too big a surprise but still. My last thought was hoping I wouldn’t regret not rigging some sort of tarp over the daffodils, since it sounded more like ice but I wasn’t motivated to try and figure that out in the dark and slop.

This morning there were several inches of wet heavy snow but pretty much everything was poking up without apparent damage. I had just taken out the snow clearing pusher from the car so I used the ice scraper to get it done.

overnight late snow
poor farmer’s fertilizer
last gasp of winter

where the world was brown
now the grass pokes up bright green
sparkling in snow

Does April mean spring?
perhaps, but nothing rules out
sudden late snowfalls

snow today and gone
before it can be shoveled
a yearly reset

those itching to plant
some seeds and plants and gardens
late April Fool’s joke!