This morning, as I’m running around chasing after Katie (who hasn’t seen me for a few days and is overly happy to have her Mama back) intermittently playing ball and yelling at her not to bark at the squirrel, while simultaneously trying to gather data through the UM AskUs chat about religion in Cleveland, I notice a pair of cardinals outside my kitchen window.  The male is feeding the female a sunflower seed from my feeder.  I don’t know for sure, but this seems to be a harbinger of spring.  Regardless of the weather forcast for snow.