The Coming Spring

Astronomical Spring is still a few weeks away.  The weather has been unsettled.  The deep cold weather appears to have passed.  Now we regularly climb above freezing, but we still get an inch or two of snow each week.

Two things occurred this week to let me know Spring is near - I saw my first groundhog out and about, and I smelled my first skunk.  The critters are stirring.  Spring will soon be here...