March Lion and April Lion no lambs allowed

March turned out to be a toughish month: summer heat alternating with below-freezing temperatures and foot deep slush-snow (or deeper!). Along comes April, with more temperature see-saws. I cannot recall that the weather was so erratic 25 years ago, but you know that us old-timers tend to embroider our memories. I do know that we had a good deal more snow, since Boulder built a set of cross-country ski trails. These seemed like a lot of wishful thinking in the late 90's to about 2004, but now we do get enough snow to occasionally motivate the City Parks people to crunch a few trails out in the open park spaces. I haven't looked at the founded trails to see if they have even been maintained. Right now, one of the nicest ones is being demolished by alternate park construction, with all the wild plums and chokecherries being ripped out from along the irrigation ditches, a lot of the cottonwoods being chopped down (there go the hawk and owl nests!) and terraforming for X-bikers trails being performed. I suppose that there might be some consolation in having ditches covered so toddlers won't drown when their parents forget them in a fit of socializing. But losing all that shrubbery is sad...