When you mention bats, many people have an instant reaction and it’s not often a positive one. Our culture is rich with bat imagery and every October we can immerse ourselves in spine tingling spookiness or dark and mysterious festivities.
We are approaching the golden moments of summer when tomatoes taste like tomatoes, eating a peach requires a large napkin and popping berries of red, blue, yellow and black is just fun. The season opening of the farmers’ markets throughout Delaware County has begun.
It has been a slow, cold spring in Delaware County. Lawns all across the county lay dormant well into April, waiting for the right conditions to break dormancy and begin to grow. Finally, we’re recovering from the one-two punch of last year’s hot, dry, long summer and cold, snowy, long winter.