Snapshot: Winter cracked...

Snow melts into the earth and a gentle breeze   

Loosens the damp gum wrappers, the stale leaves   

Left over from autumn, and the dead brown grass.   

The sky shakes itself out. And the invisible birds   

Winter put away somewhere return, the air relaxes,   

People start to circulate again in twos and threes...

John Koethe (click here to read full poem)

 After a winter so long some may have doubted it would ever end, winter in Quebec gave up. Not that it did so without a struggle, though. As this snapshot post shows, there was snow well into the sunshine season.