Outdoors

Nature Notes Phil the Groundhog is said to have seen his shadow on Feb. 2; thus we are in for another two months of winter. Notes From Madoo What is comfortable for the gardener often places the garden in peril. This lamb of a January, for example. It was one long thaw. It has pushed things forward to a point where, most certainly, retributive spring frosts will do much damage. Precociousness always exacts payment.