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We had a lovely day today in Vermont! Temperature topped 60F for the first time this spring.

Our crocuses (or croci 🤔) opened up again.

The yellow ones are back in addition to some purple ones.

Hopefully the daffodils can't be far behind.

Our afternoon walk takes use by a swamp and the wood frogs are croaking. Its always fun to hear them. They are so noisy and sound vaguely like a duck quacking so it sounds like a group of ducks going on. Wood frogs are the first frogs to call out in the spring in Vermont.

We also took the first hike of the year up to Silver Lake. Silver Lake is about 800 feet higher than Lake Dunmore. The trail was clear (mostly) of ice but the lake was still iced over solid. I should be sharing a photo here but we were in a hurry to get back in time for a basketball game.

Here's a shot of Lake Dunmore from this morning. Almost all the ice gone. There is a little on the left of this photo. Mostly the ice is just hanging out in some shady coves. The wind and chop broke up the ice on the larger open areas.