Our spring has been wet enough since late April, but it was dry before that - from late March to late April we had no rain at all and things got pretty dry.

So dry, in fact, that I almost burned my woodshed down!

We usually burn our previous year's accumulation of brush in the spring. This year we did it during the second week of April. There was a lot of very dry brush so it was a very hot fire. It got into an old stump on the fenceline. I sprayed the stump with water and got it (mostly) out. A few hours later it burst back into flame and set off the dry grass that had collected under the fence over the winter. By the time we noticed it the flames were several meters high and heading for our woodshed. But I had kept the hose out and got the fire under control in a few minutes.

It didn't rain from late March to late April - about five weeks. But the last three weeks have been at or above normal (about 25 mm/week), so things are greening up very well, as you can see below.