Saturday, February 2, 2008

Groundhog Day!

So Wiarton Willie didn't see his shadow this morning. Which allegedly means an early spring in Southern Ontario. Of course he wouldn't, not with yesterday's nasty snowstorm.

Like I believe that legend -- statistically the woodchuck's spotting or non-spotting of the shadow on the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, a.k.a. Candlemas, has prognosticated the timing of warmer weather only 37% of the time.

But it's still a fun tradition, and if it brings thousands of tourists to the usually deserted Bruce Penninsula, it can't hurt. So happy Groundhog Day, or Candlemas -- or Saturday, as the case may be.

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