Oddly, we need rain.

This magnificent magnolia is beginning its show.

This may look like the pot'o'gold, but actually, it's nascent basil.

The above info-graphic is from the CIC. Someone must have weeded through all the nearly 12,000 comments to make this tabulation. It seems pretty clear that the people are opposed. But the decision is up to the eight Great Lakes governors. Only three of them are democrats—Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New York. Any one of the eight can scuttle the Waukesha proposal. Will any one of them do it? We'll find out in May.