The Brutal Assassination of Daffodils

What is Mother Nature trying to tell me?

In the town in which I live on the Great Plains of Turtle Island winter refuses to go away. Just a couple of days ago our town recorded a low temperature of ONE degree above zero (Fahrenheit). IN APRIL! IN APRIL! That shattered the all-time record low temperature ever recorded in the month of April by 13 degrees!

A block away from where I live there is a little ornamental plum tree that just four days ago was in full bloom, its delightful pink blossoms a calling forth of life after a particularly brutal winter. A half-block in the opposite direction was a small bed of daffodils that have been blooming now for almost a week (around two weeks later than normal).

Not only did it get down to ONE degree above zero three days ago but we also received three inches of snow on that day. IN APRIL! It was our third snowstorm so far this month!

Today I walked past that flowering plum tree and there was not a glimmer of pink left on it. All the blossoms had been frozen and they were now shriveled up and were a light shade of gray. The daffodils were all bent to the ground, frozen, and shriveled in a state of yellowish-gray.

Spring was just finally starting to make its presence known and Mother Nature came along and slit its…