ESSEX, New York — It's pitch dark and cold enough we can see our breath in our headlamps when Kristin Kimball leads me inside her barn ... only complication this spring is the unseasonable ...

Spring brings lambing season, a time of hard work and long hours for farmers. But it's also a time made joyful by cuddly newborns. Into the barn: The joys of spring lambing season ESSEX ...

One special day each spring, Austinites cover Pease Park like mushrooms after a good rain. Fairies mingle with mermaids. They dance around a maypole and sling hula hoops around their waists.