Who Said Spring? -- Dorothy Scannell, early-bird worker, trudges through slush of a spring snow which blanketed Denver and much of the eastern Rocky Mountain region today. So This Is Spring! Dorothy Scannell, early bird worker, thought the calendar had let her down when she trudged through the slush of a sudden spring snow which blanketed a large area of the Eastern Rocky Mountain region of the US recently. May 9, 1948. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).