At brunch, when the front wall of windows lets in a flood of sunlight on even the gloomiest spring morning, scrambled eggs, golden and delicate, are accompanied by a hearty ragout laden with hen-of-the-woods mushrooms.
This spring, the social media giant scrambled to respond to revelations that the data and political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which had ties to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, improperly obtained the personal information of as many as 87 million users.
Lifting the restrictions has become caught up in the messy politics of immigration reform, so each spring we now have a mad scramble as companies try to win some of the coveted 85,000 visas that are granted each year.
"I was thinking of him scrambling under rocks for spring lizards and how hungry he must have been," said the cook, Elizabeth Swanson.
As Hollywood fast-forwards the calendar, starting the lucrative summer movie season with spring only half-sprung, Madison Avenue is scrambling to keep pace.
Before Atlanta's offense could spring into action in the second half, Rodgers scrambled 7 yards for a touchdown, and the spread was a yawning 21 points.
When authorities in Centre Wellington, population of about 30,000, learned that Nestlé had put a bid on a spring water well in their region, they scrambled over the summer to counter with a competing bid.
With temperatures more like early summer than early spring, the precocious gardening season precipitated a general last-minute scramble among landscapers seeking accreditation.
The near-miss sprung Rangers into a rare attack and Fabianski had to scramble across his goal to hold onto Leroy Fur's close-range header, following Krancjar's hooked cross from the byeline.
The image of the retired carpenter on his back, the spring air smeared with smoke and the stink of terror, police scrambling around him, went around the world this week, a viral picture both despairing and inspirational.
