Man-oh-man, Mother Nature, you sure played a nasty April Fool’s joke this year here in northeastern Pennsylvania. For this first week of April, we have had nothing but rain, freezing rain, sleet, wind, clouds, snow showers, driving snow, sideways snow, and misery. Ha, ha!

But today winter ended. It was a quintessential blue-sky April Sunday, and we enjoyed it all the more after the crazy weather week we had just endured.

The first Johnny-jump-up showed up today with a smile upon its precious face. It’s here just in time for the solar eclipse tomorrow, and I hope it enjoys the show, with no need for eclipse glasses for this little darlin’.