Photos: On track for spring

The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia

The spring sun arrived in the last week, shining on the backs of Audrey Grimes; her son Christopher Corradi, 2 ½; and Bricks, their dog, on Monday as they walk in Altamont down the railroad tracks covered with coarse rock.

The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia

"Mowing ahead": Workers on public roads were out, too, cutting loose trees and keeping roadsides clear as a Department of Transportation worker is poised to cut through brush along Route 143 in Westerlo Monday morning.

The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia

Grazing weather: Though still the color of the hay eaten all winter long, the grass was nevertheless accessible at foot for cattle, and animals of all stripes, as they enjoyed the snow-free ground.
 

The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia

But that meant trouble for anything in the way of gushing streams and saturated land. Here, water has pooled in a front yard in Westerlo.