I always say that Michigan is just about the best place to be from June-October. I even love the muggy summer days.

But this...this snow is one of the reasons why whenever anyone asks me which season is my least favorite, I have to say that it is spring. The weather is too chaotic and wet. It will be in the 80's one day and then in the 30's the next day (heck, it might even do that on the SAME day). I just hope May is warm.

I don't really hate it here all that much. I just feel that I've been misled. I thought that spring was finally here to stay.

I feel like I've been seduced by beautiful woman in a hotel bar only to be drugged and wake up in a tub full of ice with a missing a kidney.

I'm a sucker.

Both ypsi~dixit and I captured the same image: a single red tulip covered in snow, a perfect image for the day!

it's actually a nice photo, Mark. 50s tomorrow.

I love the weather changes--it keeps me on my toes. One minute I can be sunbathing; the next, I can go cross-country skiing. The key to enjoying the unpredictable weather is to embrace it--wallow in its extremes, dance with the sun, the slush, sunburned noses and frozen cheeks. The cold reminds us that we are alive by intensifying our existence, heightening our senses, and drowning us with sweltering humidity and freezing our asses off. Life without extremes would be death. I don't know if they are alive in Arizona (maybe they sleep outside in the desert night to get their doses of icy cold).

I have records of salting and snow removals in May, so stop complaining.

You keep records of salting?

They'll play anything at the Elbow.

You and Susanne were thinking with the same brain.

I keep a database for a snow removal company. The conservative owners there were forced to concede that there might be "something to this global warming thing" after looking at the shrinking snowfalls and rise in temperatures since the company's start decades ago.

Yes, The Salt Miners are very good bluegrass / "olde time" band that frequents the Elbow. Their name is derived from the employee roster of the massive downriver salt mine that stretches for miles and miles. It recently reopened.

It's been remarkably nice down lower michigan ways.

as further evidence of global warming, there were apparently these things called glaciers that covered most of north america.. Apparently this is the reason the midwest is so freaking flat.. Unfortunatly due to the invention of the internal combustion engine, the glaicers melted, seas rose.. etc. If only Kyoto had been around then.

John, if you want to discuss Global Climate Change why not just continue the conversation you started and then ran away from a few days ago?

Speaking of frickin Michigan did anyone notice the teeny tiny news article in which 31 prison gaurds in MI were convicted of sexual assault against female prisoners?
31!