Our seasonally gray weather broke this week, which inclined me to alter my route to work to include a mile or so of the trails through Carleton’s Cowling Arboretum. I wound up taking a slightly different path each day, enjoying the late-winter beauty of the last snow, bare but awakening trees, bristlingly dry grasses, and blue sunlit skies. The snow faded each day, and disappeared entirely before my afternoon ride on Saturday, leaving a thin layer of mud on the trails, fields, bike, and boots.
