{"id":5920,"date":"2025-04-28T08:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2025-05-03T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:02:30","slug":"a-late-and-quiet-spring-in-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/a-late-and-quiet-spring-in-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"A Late and Quiet Spring in Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">28-April-2025<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring arrived late here in Vermont.  Happily, March and April have relieved our &#8216;abnormally dry&#8217; spell.  We bucked the global trend here in the Green Mountains, March being the warmest on record globally.  Another year, another global heat record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every springtime is eerily quieter now, fewer birds. Sterile. Earth Day (April 22) passed almost without notice. Americans are focused on other things. Nature is an afterthought. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"461\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot_20250502-122531-461x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot_20250502-122531-461x1024.png 461w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot_20250502-122531-135x300.png 135w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot_20250502-122531-768x1707.png 768w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot_20250502-122531-691x1536.png 691w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot_20250502-122531.png 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>From the Washington Post<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Two books that have shaped my view of nature and never fail to invoke melancholy and anger at what we have done and fail to do. I keep them in the area I sit to thumb through them from time to time.  I usually have to put them down after a few minutes, the guilt and outrage inside bubbling up for what we have already lost and will never recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"655\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-28-at-8.06.54-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-28-at-8.06.54-AM.png 655w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-28-at-8.06.54-AM-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AT-BS-502_640x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5866\" style=\"width:293px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AT-BS-502_640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AT-BS-502_640x640-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AT-BS-502_640x640-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28-April-2025 Spring arrived late here in Vermont. Happily, March and April have relieved our &#8216;abnormally dry&#8217; spell. We bucked the global trend here in the Green Mountains, March being the warmest on record globally. Another year, another global heat record. Every springtime is eerily quieter now, fewer birds. Sterile. Earth Day (April 22) passed almost<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/a-late-and-quiet-spring-in-vermont\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Late and Quiet Spring in Vermont&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}