This past spring wasn't generous in warm sunny days. Just the opposite, rain and clouds were the usual and predictable attributes of all days, especially week-ends :/; temperatures barely climbed into mid-sixties only to drop back to 50F. Trees and bushes didn't start blooming till the very end of April, making it quite a long, dreary, and dull beginning of the spring. First week of May is when things finally started to look spring-y and cheerful, and that's when I…