LEWISTON, Minn. – After a brief overnight shower and a morning of sun, the season’s first daffodils burst from their still-damp earthen home. This wonderful Brooklyn-accented ditty comes to mind:

Spring is sprung
The grass is riz
I wonder where the boydie is
The boydie is upon the wing
No, that’s absoyd
The wing is on the little boyd

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Delighted. On their usual bed of vinca. Image: Steve Lunde