Happy Groundhog Day!
As you probably know by now, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, prognosticating an early spring. We’ll have 17 hours of blazing sunshine before you know it.
I’d have posted earlier, but somebody was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past deadline on his article. Come to think of it, my sick beard makes me look a little bit like this groundhog.
Here’s Vaughan Williams’ “Folk Songs of the Four Seasons,” with its chorus “Early in the Spring” (following a prologue, “To the Ploughboy”).

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