FINALLY! An above 70 day for my part of Maine, I think likely it made it up
to 74 after the fropa, and since the wind was offshore the marine effect was
shut out. Remarkable also was the lack of clouds, once things cleared off.
(This Never Happens, This Never Happens----)

Into daffodil time now, still too early for tulips. First mowing today. The
forsythias are blooming all they're going to after that kind of cold. Still
two weeks minimum for lilacs. Trees still bare, but of course in the local
warm spot (Bar Harbor, on the lee of the Mt. Desert Range) birch and
poplars out about an inch. They get a normal 10 day head start over the rest
of the region. The difference between Bar Harbor and everywhere else always
amazes us, especially a plant person like me.

Shad (service berry, sugar pear, Amananchier) just starting to bloom, the
truest sign we've made it. So this is a good time.

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