The coming of spring is always a mixed blessing for me - with spring comes warmer temperatures, and lovely flowering plants and leaves and trees, but also pollen, and mud season.

Today, walking across the back yard the ground felt hollow underfoot - it's a weird feeling you get when you know that it's just mud underneath the grass that has been frozen for months, and one good thaw will make it treacherous. It's just part of Spring in New England, but mud season has been much less of a hassle since we paved the driveway, so that's one good thing!