Hyperbole

On April 15 the temperature was up to 14 degrees C. The tundra is gone, at least around my place. April 22, Earth Day and there are noticeable attempts at dressing up:

Emerging Daffodils recall Wordsworth's lines, a little dated, the lines not the daffodils.

 On the low hills, the leafless branches of the hardwoods look like grey hairs among the tufts of green
from the conifers. Grey and Green and temperate sunshine do not make April a cruel month.