Everyone awaits the emergence of the groundhog today in the hope that an early spring will be predicted. Unfortunately our furry little friend doesn’t have a great track record in terms of forecasting the next six weeks of weather. He (or she) is right just about fifty percent of the time. There is one thing though that the groundhog always gets right. The hours of daylight are lengthening in the northern hemisphere as earth tilts on its axis and we move toward spring’s vernal equinox.
An artist had fun imagining the groundhog in its winter burrow.
Now here’s the groundhog in a summer landscape.
Groundhog in summer