Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
The forsythia and daffodils have bloomed, trees are leafing out and the pollen is flying high.
With spring in full bloom, the misery of allergy season has also arrived....
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