Just when it was beginning to look like this was going to be a truly snowless winter, March arrived and, with it, the March storms we've come to know and love... well, some of us feel love. The past storm, however, was really nothing much—a period of heavy white stuff followed by rain and relative warmth, so the blanket is pretty meager, even threadbare in places. The Winter Aconites, which had just started to think about blooming, took advantage of the rents in the fabric and, in all honesty, wouldn't have minded in the least had we been hit by bona fide blizzards. They're tough little plants that have evolved "the right stuff" to take the insults in stride. Snow is no problem. They'll simply wait it out.