Ah... Spring is in the air...


While it may not LOOK like it outside, it is beginning to smell, sound and feel like spring outside.

The thermometer may still be reading below 0, but the sun is stronger and the snow melts and receeds, albeit slowly.

I've heard robins and redwing blackbirds already (haven't yet seen them, but I know they are there). I spent some time last weekend at the McLaughlin Conservation area with Jane taking photos. We didn't quite get there in time for sun rise, but there was a lovely fog hanging over the bay as the sun came up through the clouds.


Jane is not what I would call an early riser, but I think even she was glad (eventually!) that she got up early that morning. We had a very fruitful (birdful??) day, as you can see from the photos.


Today, Darryl and I drove to visit his mom and my parents and it's a whole other world there - just a short half hours drive to the north. On either side of my parents driveway were 5' deep snow drifts...and it was the same in every other yard. There was 3-4' on the level still...yet the same sun shone strongly and you could see water undercutting the drifts at the road edge. It won't be long now...