Finally here in the finger lakes the last of the snow is melting from the big piles. I walked our 12 acres today and my crocus and tete a tete daffodils are blooming, as well as the skunk cabbage in our wetland corner of the property. We have been hearing the birds romancing one another for a couple weeks, but now it is the spring peepers (little frogs) with a deafening chorus of high pitched sounds. SPRING IS HERE.