March can be a very fickle month. Or maybe it is that I am expecting so much of spring out of March and frequently the month is much more about winter than spring.

The National Weather Service told me a couple of weeks ago to look for March to be the end of El Nino which has been providing us with such an open winter.

It has been probably the strangest winter I have ever spent on the banks of the mighty Milk River. Day after day it is sunshiny, cold at first, then warming up to the 40’s. Lots of wind and more of the same week after week after week. We have had El Nino winters before...