Spring in Minnesota...

Two years ago I wrote this post about spring in Tennessee, that was the year of the Good Friday tornado. If I had written a post last year, it would have likely been about the record setting May floods. This year I am experiencing spring in Minnesota!

When we first got here, at the end of March, there was about a foot or so of snow on our balcony!





This picture was taken on April 1st when my mom was here! These snow mounds are a very common site in all of the parking lots here.



Fast forward to April 7th, just a few days later and this is what I was wearing! Sandals and short sleeve shirts. (I should also add that people here were wearing sandals when my mom was here!)

The rest of April was cool for the most part with a few nice days thrown in here and there. It has also rained quite a bit and been really windy (which is normal for here, hence the windmills).

On Easter Sunday the weather was great, sunny and mid 60s!

That Friday the weather was nice again and Chris was off work so we went for a walk along the Mississippi River. As you can see the grass is starting to green up and the horses are out.

And the sun was reflecting off the water. It was a little too windy, but a beautiful day over all.

Green grass starting to pop up along the trail, but the trees still look like winter, no green or even buds yet!

That Sunday, May 1st, we woke up to temps in the mid to upper 20s, 20+ mph winds, and snow flurries! It was awful and made you feel like it was never going to warm up!! As we were leaving church, one guy was yelling "I LOVE Minnesota... I can't wait for our 2 days of summer!!" Not very reassuring for this Tennessean :( I love the summer and I love warm weather.

According to the forcast, the next 10 days are supposed to be at least 58 degrees and there are even a couple of days in the 70s! Unfortunately there is a good chance of rain several of those days! Next week Chris's mom will be here so I hope the weather is at least decent (and NO snow!!)

I have decided that Minnesota is much like Tennessee in the Spring... If you don't like the weather, stick around a day and it just might be MUCH different!