Ho, ho, ho, Merry April!

Now, I was going to have a lovely, long post about how spring has finally sprung and the flowers are all in bloom:
How the flowers are filling in nicely:

How I sowed the first seeds for cool-weather crops, like broccoli and spinach, and started an experiment to see how early I could start warm-weather crops outdoors using Kozy Koats:

And show everyone some pretty wild-type tulips like these:


And these:


And some other nice tulips:


But yesterday and today we woke up to this:

And more of this:

So what's up with that? Was I suddenly transported to Fairbanks or something?