welcome to may

sort of a crazy image to start may with, but this is what caught my attention on my cold and windy walk today: over-wintered cattails standing tall over all the other bent and broken winter stems. what a challenging month of april we’ve had. i don’t want my daily missives to you to be a continual heart-cry about the climate. honestly, i don’t know if this april could be considered normal in any way or not. being land-locked in the middle of the north american continent as we are here in minnesota means wild weather swings are indeed quite a normal part of life here. but starting the month with near 90s, and ending this typical month of warming in the 30s doesn’t feel normal in any way. i don’t know what is going on in your bioregions lately, but i genuinely hope your situations is causing you less dread than mine.

cattails at the end of winter (typha)