Something about forget-me-nots starting to spread, and something about the robin’s recent return, both help make up for the wet, windy spring’s often unenjoyable days. But getting Gretchen Burleigh-Johnson’s email the other day, with a callout for crafters for St. Philip’s annual Strawberry Festival June 29, now that said summer.

That email and one from Wiscasset Middle High School announcing the third quarter honor roll – congratulations, all – and last week’s talk of the WMHS senior trip being planned for Boston, also reminded me, the time of planning our graduation pages and reporting pre-graduation news and festivities is almost upon us. Some years, like this one, it seems to come sooner than others, although it really is always around the same time.

Let’s blame the weather on June events seeming so distant until now. But last weekend and as of press time Tuesday, we only had thanks for the weather. Spring might be turning around, finally, with thankfully a lot left of the season to enjoy. 

And then it’s summer, with the Strawberry Festival and so much else. And maybe, just maybe, with all this nice weather, the Wawenock building’s facade will be finished, the scaffolding will leave and then the town will have the full sidewalk back. And that will be a nice day, whatever the weather.

Week’s positive parting thought: Keep the forget-me-nots and daffodils coming, planet Earth! Wiscasset’s climate action team plans a day in your honor, for all to enjoy and learn, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27 at Wiscasset Community Center.