Earthman vs. the Seasons - Spring

In the face of wind advisories and a forecast of nightime lows of 24 for the next week, I'm moved to quote Henry Mitchell at some length:

"The gardener knows those early April days when the air is soft, the sun not too bright, and the thermometer at 63. There have been soft rains, there is little wind. The gardener thinks such weather is his right, this time of year. If a wind of seventy-two miles an hour follows a cold snap and the temperature shoots to 83, followed by hail, he is fit for the madhouse and really should be safely stashed away there for a few days. And yet such weather is not only normal but inevitable--if not this year, then next. Nothing in the natural world is 'always reliable.'
"...The truth is, of course, that there is no day of the early spring that is safe. Usually, after the gardener has carried on a good bit and made life miserable for a number of people, the weather settles back and the gardener stops hollering everything is going to die."
"We are not born to a bonbon-type life you know."
(The Essential Earthman, Henry Mitchell, Houghton Mifflin, reprint 1994, pp 9-10; One Man's Garden, Henry Mitchell, Houghton Mifflin, 1992, p. 67).

In other words, this, too, shall pass, even if we have to replace all our roses.