Spring Fling

It was a wild Monday in the North Country.  Overnight thunderstorms turned the lazy creeks to rivers and the rivers to raging torrents.  I took a ride to see Ralph Child in Malone, N.Y. this afternoon and the Great Chazy river looked like a grade 5 rapid.  It was 75 degrees and a 30 MPH wind was rapidly melting the remaining snow, although Chazy and Chateaugay lakes still have some ice on the surface.  The rest of the week promises to remain mild, so young farmers  (and older ones also) turn to thoughts of planting.