If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
That line comes from Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This morning, here in Saskatchewan, spring seems far away. It’ll be five months until this snow is gone.
Shelley didn’t live in Saskatchewan
Flatlander Faith 
Many folks have no idea. I joke about our six-week summers. And you get hammered even harder than we do.
My Dad used to tell about a fellow homesteader in the early 1900’s who complained “This country only has two seasons, winter and July!”