Spring forward in spite of yourself

There's something called "muscle memory" which is supposed to stay in the body even when you've forgotten to exercise for weeks. That old routine is just waiting for the right conditions for you to get back to it again. These crocuses have some of that as they muscle through the dry, colorless detritus of winter. Even though we didn't get much snow, we sure got a lot of beige. Cracked, dried out dull leaves and grasses. Fields and fields of them as far as the eye could see for months now. But this weekend we turned the clocks ahead and today's temperature expressed its muscle memory for spring so much it almost felt like summer. Even though there might be one last blizzard hovering in the clouds to dampen our spring days, it's surely going to be short lived especially if it comes in April.