I was driving home last Thursday, and came around the corner onto the street where we live. There are subdividion signs on either side of that corner, and the landscapers had decorated them with banks of yellow tulips.
It has been incredibly windy for the past few days, and the tulips on the north side of the street had been totally stripped of their blooms. Those on the south side had a six foot block sign protecting them from the wind, and were still blooming.
As we traveled to Iowa and back, we saw similar examples of the wind's power. I'm ready for that part where "April sighed, and said goodbye, and along came pretty little May!"