Last year, Easter Sunday arrived so late in the calendar year
that it fell the day before
the Patriot's Day Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts --
which is the day immortalizing Paul Revere's Ride,
and about as late as Easter can possibly be.

This year,
Easter Sunday coincides with April Fool's Day.
...which makes me wonder if the weather will get up to no good.
The forecast for Easter Sunday
does threaten to be chilly, not much above freezing.

And talking of slime,
the spring peepers are out, bless them.
Night before last, no peepers, only a puzzled-sounding bird call.
But LAST night,
there were a mere handful of spring peepers.
Their voices did not roar, which is how it sounds
-- a very high-pitched roar --
when all the peepers go at it "en masse" and make this dense wall of noise.
No, last night was loud and clear, but just a small cluster of peepers, in the ditch near the public parking lot.

That will probably change in a matter of hours!
Though our trees be bare,
spring is impatient to spring forth from the ice and the frozen snow.