Yesterday we had a day of weather almost like spring. 59 degrees and sun! And it’s been several days since we’ve been below zero. Though I know it’s foolish to think this is the beginning of spring, I can’t help myself from hoping. I do this every year. You’d think I’d learn. But we really deserve this to be an early spring. It’s been snowing and cold since mid-November, steadily getting worse and worse. We are so tired of cold, snow, bad roads, shoveling driveways. We so much want to believe all that is over.

We still have snow in the yard, though with today’s rain most of it should be gone by the end of the day. Katie tried to get her last licks of fresh snow.
It was windy but sunny out.  She just wanted to be outside, and I finally put her out in her kennel, the first time she’s been out there this year.  The yard was wet, and I didn’t think she’d like getting her feet wet, but she sat out there quite happily for quite a long time, barking at trucks on the road, and birds at the feeder.

Today almost all the snow is gone, and look, just peaking up through the ground are the tips of tulips, yellow green with youth, pushing hopefully up toward the sun.  I can’t wait for spring, looks like my tulips can’t wait either!