New York State Conservationist, February 1st, 2007
With the wit that spices everything he writes, Joseph Wood Krutch says in The Twelve Seasons that "the most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February." Riding out winter a few hundred miles from Mr. Krutch's Connecticut home, we western New Yorkers know perfectly well what he means. Today is Groundhog Day; there's not a cloud in sight, and Punxsutawney Phil must have returned to his burrow and bed hours ago. The icy, cindery snowbanks along our country road inch higher by the day. Outside our sunlit kitchen window, the thermometer says 40, but the ...
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