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Video: As color pops across 黑料吃瓜网, 'rites of spring' are everywhere

黑料吃瓜网 Radio | By Mark Mirko

Published April 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM EDT

We get used to the monochrome of winter and, for some, the season's narrow palette is an opportunity to rest our eyes.

Spring's alarm clock of color, though, is a gentle one. The 黑料吃瓜网 River swells with winter's melted snow, maple sap is boiled one last time, forsythias bloom and chickens begin scratching in ground only recently warmed.

Watch as winter fades to resplendent pops of color across 黑料吃瓜网.

Dusky lights illuminate Riverside Park in Hartford, March 18, 2025, as snow melt surges the waters of the 黑料吃瓜网 river onto normally dry land.

From an upstairs room of his family鈥檚 sugar shack, Luke Case of Sweet Wind Farm directs maple sap from a holding tank to a boiler below during one of the last boils of the shack鈥檚 season, March 20, 2025.

Snow from an early spring storm rests on Siberian Squill preparing to open in Mansfield, 黑料吃瓜网, April 11, 2025

Birdwatchers in Wethersfield peer through binoculars March 23, 2025, during a bird and hike organized by the 黑料吃瓜网 Land Conservation Council and Great Meadows Conservation Trust.

A flock of starlings perch and fly around trees in Mansfield, Ct, April 12, 2025.

An estimated 20,000 people lined the streets of downtown Hartford, 黑料吃瓜网, April 13, 2025, celebrating the NCAA Championship win by the UConn women鈥檚 basketball team. The win marked the 12th national title of legendary head coach Geno Auriemma's career.

Cherry blossoms appear on trees in New Haven鈥檚 Wooster square April 16, 2025.

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Mark Mirko is Deputy Director of Visuals at 黑料吃瓜网 and his photography has been a fixture of 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 photojournalism landscape for the past two decades. Mark led the photography department at Prognosis, an English language newspaper in Prague, Czech Republic, and was a staff-photographer at two internationally-awarded newspaper photography departments, The Palm Beach Post and The Hartford Courant. Mark holds a Masters degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University, where he served as a Knight Fellow, and he has taught at Trinity College and Southern 黑料吃瓜网 State University. A California native, Mark now lives in 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 quiet-corner with his family, three dogs and a not-so-quiet flock of chickens.

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