I think I’m going to have some fun, now, alternating photos of a frozen winter landscape with the newly-opening spring blooms and buds – haven’t lived in a place where spring is so dramatically different for quite some time :-).
I am glad you get a proper spring! (Though it is hard to say what you get in California is not wonderful) We are definitely to the point of the year in northeast Ohio where I feel optimism from the days starting to get long enough and the weather starting to be above freezing enough. So ready for winter to be over!
Ah, yes, I’m definitely being reminded of the glorious contrast that a full spring brings. Although we had no snow, the days were short and gray, mostly wet and fairly cold. Still wet, not very warm, but longer days and …. flowers! š
(so much world, so little time....) 
I am glad you get a proper spring! (Though it is hard to say what you get in California is not wonderful) We are definitely to the point of the year in northeast Ohio where I feel optimism from the days starting to get long enough and the weather starting to be above freezing enough. So ready for winter to be over!
February 25, 2022 at 19:46
Ah, yes, I’m definitely being reminded of the glorious contrast that a full spring brings. Although we had no snow, the days were short and gray, mostly wet and fairly cold. Still wet, not very warm, but longer days and …. flowers! š
February 27, 2022 at 10:41
Hurray for the coming of spring!
February 26, 2022 at 18:33