Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
Unthaw and become more natural.
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
Winters are so long in northern Michigan - nearly nine months of gray skies and deep snow - that summer comes as a fresh burst.
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
We gotta see-saw until we unthaw those Popsicle toes.
