Vernal Equinox

From The Standard Mail Car

Can Spring have come to the High Country?

Day and night are equal now for a moment before daylight tips the scale toward summer.

Here in our high valley nights are still frozen.

Travelers passing through hurry down below, shunning the cold, the snowy peaks and ice-bound streams. We who have weathered the Winter watching the days lengthen, detect with delight the special sign…