Oh, the weather has been ideal for the past week, with a slight shower on Tuesday evening.

Shad bushes are in bloom. Tour vans signifying springtime in Aquinnah.

Lilacs are starting to bud. The herring are running but in decreased numbers than what has been previously recorded over time.

It’s been another week of unusual weather, with snowflakes and sleet on April 22 and then a warm weekend with temperature in the high 60s.

A few moments of snowfall this past week and quite a bit of rain, but the water table is still down and the April showers have been scarce thus far for this month.

There have been grayy skies for most of the past week with fog overhead in Aquinnah for at least three of those days but the forsythia are in bloom.

Daffodils are in full bloom, more songbirds arriving each day, and the herring will be running soon during this long awaited spring.

Spring has truly arrived with the blossoming of daffodils along the byways, the return of osprey to their nests, and the full chorus of pinkletinks.