"Come on......The end of winter just means the beginning of mud season!"In the PA Outback we have 6 seasons : thawing mud season, greening mud season, warm muddy season, dry mud season (August), increasing mud season, and frozen mud season (frequently hidden by snow, ice or a combination).
I used to have a nice second home in the poconos, Lake Wallenpaupack. Mud and rocks covered in moss, canopied in trash trees. I really enjoyed the blackfly hatches when the mud was a tepid 50 degrees. Usually in early may. Those woodpeckers pounding away on a sea of birch trees, half dead and half dying. I swear birch trees are just sprouted looking for a place to sink their roots and die.
The hardwoods are so void in the region! I guess it was all logged out in the 1800's and it was found too rocky and infertile for farmland.