Spring!

There are crocuses in bloom! It must be spring!

This spring has been strange, I think. We've had several weeks now of continuous warm weather. We've lost a lot of snow in a hurry because it's even been above freezing overnight. A couple of drizzly-rainy days contributed a lot, too.

At the risk of "jinxing" it, I even mentioned the other day that it's past the middle of March and we haven't had our usual March snowstorm, or Tourney blizzard, or any snow at all. March used to be our snowiest month. Global warming, maybe? Well, THAT is a subject for a different post!

Anyway, it's strange, in a nice way, to have the crocus coming up from the earth, not from a pile of snow.

Posted this on Facebook, but I love it so much, it's going here, too, to save it forever:

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"