Blackberry Winter

Easter egg hunters last Saturday awoke to pouring rain storms, breaking just in time for a very limited window where the kids could slosh through wet grass to collect those prized eggs, the ones with the chocolate candy.

But Easter Sunday turned out to be a bright and sunny day with a touch of Blackberry Winter.

Meteorologists describe Blackberry Winter, for those not in the know, as a cold snap that occurs in late Spring when the blackberry bushes are blooming. They are right. You will never hear this terminology up North although blackberries are grown in all 50 states.

For many years as children our mother would buy us Easter outfits, dresses frilly and ruffly, usually pink, little hats, sometimes gloves, but always with white patent leather shoes. All excited to walk in the Easter Parade in our new clothes when old Mr. Blackberry Winter squashed that notion and we arrived at church in our dull, woolly, winter coats.

One must just remember that April showers bring forth May flowers. Enjoy!