Woodchuck Shadows

It looks like that woodchuck in 'Punks-a-tawny' is right about his prediction of a late spring, the temperatures are creeping up but it keeps snowing, leaving the woods a sticky, mushy mess that makes offroad mountain biking futile.  Treehugger Rob and myself had a nice 20 mile mountain-bike-ride-on-a-road down Dunn's Eddy road early this morning, every branch of every tree was carefully stacked with wet, heavy snow.  Without a doubt there is just a bit of spring in the air because the crisp, squeaky dry cold snow of February is already feeling more like mushy wet March snow.