Season’s Greenings

The long winter has finally ended but the weather has been holding us in a limbo of lukewarm days and cold nights — not what most Southern Vermonters are looking for so long after maple sugaring has ended. Still, the signs are here and, on Tuesday, Shawn Cunningham ventured out camera in hand to capture some of the brightest spots. As for the forecast, things are looking up, with lows now going only into the 40s and highs reaching 73 on Saturday and 80 next Wednesday. ON THE COVER: A bee centers itself upon a tree blossom. Click on a photo below to launch the gallery.

Three shades of pink blossoms along Main Street in Chester.

Daffodils in the foreground at the Whiting Library.

White blossoms grace a stand of trees.

Branches hang heavy with blooms at the TD Bank branch.

A stoop adorned for spring.

Farmer Squatty Cram, co-owner of the Stone Village Farmers Market, waters the geraniums inside one of his greenhouses on Route 103 N.

Pale pink with a white backdrop.

Chester Recreation Department director Matt McCarthy touches up the pool house at the Pinnacle.

Clouds skirt overhead as the lawns of the town cemetery green up.

A vision of texture and color along Main Street.