Southwest winds over the coming week will bring a taste of spring to our shore. Daytime highs will reach into the 40s and may approach 50 degrees by the middle of next week. Otherwise, expect mostly blue skies during the day with increasing cloud cover at night.

This relief from winter and drifting snow comes as a welcome break for the schoolchildren kept home last week, as well as for the snow crews who have worked day and night clearing the road from Duluth to Port Arthur. Bus service has resumed after six days of interruption. Other signs of the season’s turn come from Grand Portage, where fishing through the ice has improved. From the woods come reports of winter logging camps breaking and the sound of saw mills returning as work resumes.

In other news, the future appears to be pressing its way toward the North Shore. L. A. Simonson of the North Shore Development Company recently visited to photograph the firm’s considerable land holdings in the region. Mr. Simonson reports they are prepared both to buy additional land and to begin selling. A letter received at our newspaper office from a businessman in Gary, Indiana reads, “We feel like there will be a Florida boom on Minnesota lake shore this summer.” Word has also arrived that a Minneapolis capitalist is seeking suitable land for a golf course.

The smell of change swirls in the air much as one observer remarked that Assistant Librarian Miss Fjell and I did on the dance floor at the Good Harbor Hill town hall last evening. The future, much like the past, remains tied to the land itself—present, desired, and awaited like the coming of spring. As John Muir once wrote in My First Summer in the Sierra, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” That truth is easy to feel in the fullness of summer. On the edge of the seasons, and on the verge of change, the connection can seem more distant. One might instead recall the final reported words of the French composer Erik Satie: “Ah, the cows…” A thought perhaps worth keeping in mind before transacting in the coming real estate boom.