
When worlds collide
I’ve seen snowflakes on daffodils in March, even February. Whether the snow was late or the flowers early, spring colliding into winter is not unusual. Winter muscling in on autumn’s territory is much less common. In fact, I don’t recall it in my lifetime, not here. Fall was forever in arriving this year and with the gold still gilding the maples, winter spun forward piling up big wet flakes on the still green grass. The sun and the sleds soon came out, however, as November a