If you’re not from Maine, you assume that April means spring. Flowers, green leaf buds, birds singing, the works, right? HAH.

Some years, yes, a thaw will begin early and April will be lovely, but most of the time the ground is still frozen and the temperature hovers somewhere in the forties. That was the case when my plane landed just before midnight on a mid-April evening for a week long visit.

Read the rest on the Bangor Daily News!