Still Brown

Apologies for the huge delay in posts, work has been a bit grim recently and its now reached the point where there is nothing more that is humanly possible to do to rectify the situation so I can afford not to worry about it. Mustn't make it sound worse than it is, its still mostly good but a lot of hard work recently.

Anyway, back to Spring, these pictures are from the middle of April and as you can see it looks like Autumn, the ground is covered with dead leaves and there is not a green leaf or shoot in sight. Its a bit weird because the winters are so long and cold that the leaves from the previous Autumn don't decay. A couple of weeks later and the trees had a full covering of new leaves and it looks like Summer - yesterday (mid May) was 35C (95F) in one part of Minnesota and 2C (35F) in another just 140 miles away.



Here is Dan at his school fair
And Becky at Izzy's birthday party