Walt Amses: Vermont spring? It’s complicated

Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
With summer less than a month away and spring giving ground reluctantly, much the same as winter dragged its snowshoed feet when the only evidence the vernal equinox had arrived as scheduled was the calendar, Vermonters are becoming impatient. March — for the first time ever — the coldest month of an up-until-then fairly benign winter, sounded the opening notes of a weeks-long dirge for a season stuc