THE OLD SAILORS SAY A NOR'EASTER LASTS THREE DAYS

FORSYTHIA, DAFFODILS AND HYACINTHS ARE BLOOMING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE  HOUSE...

...BUT HANG ON FOR THE BUMPY FERRY CROSSING

Tuesday, 8:00 AM.  Wind NE, very blustery. The sky is mostly overcast but the sun is peeking through the gloom. The humidity is 82% and the barometer is rising steeply, now at 30.06".  It is no longer raining but the wind, slightly less severe, continues.

   Yesterday was a day of extreme contrasts.  On the one hand daffodils, Hyacinths and Forsythia are blooming freely now in Bayfield, and it will take only a few sunny days for the city's daffodil display to be in full force. Thw native pussy willows are through blooming for the most part, full anthesis being reached a few days ago, and diminutive red maple flower petals litter the roads.

   On the other hand, the storm  out of the northeast has been fierce, and although the rain seems to be over, the gale force winds, a true Nor'easter, still blow.  There was serious talk of shutting down the ferry yesterday, something which is seldom done, because of the rough crossing.  I watched the four 0'clock ferry leave the Bayfield dock, and it was bouncing around vigorously by the time it got a few hundred yards out into the channel. Landlubbers might have been a little green around the gills by the time they reached LaPointe.
   Our monthly Tree Board meeting this morning was long and I think productive, made longer with poetry readings about spring,  but the prose was all about the awful weather.

   The old sailors say a Nor'easter lasts three days, and this one is getting long in the tooth.