Springing Forth?

Does this look like Spring?

Here it is, March 23rd...  two nights ago we got about 6 inches of snow (a real 6 inches, not like when someone spreads their hands apart about 3 inches and says 3 feet) and then this morning about another inch.

Me: Did you get the memo?

Mother Nature: What memo?

Me: That Spring started March 20th this year?

Mother Nature: Oh that memo!  Was that a 3/20? because I could of sworn that was an 8, not a 3...

Me: Sigh...

 This little guy got the memo.

It's a robin. If I could read Robin's mind, I would imagine something along the lines of "What the heck?"

 Lots of my little birds are back, the dark-eyed juncos, the red-shafted flickers, downy woodpecker.  They have been noisily complaining about the amount of snow and lack of bugs, seeds, etc. to peck at.  I apologize to them, but really what can I do?  I just keep filling their feeder so that they don't drop dead.

Anyway, I know it is unseasonably hot in a lot of places, but not. here. at. all.  Everyone is getting a little crabby.  It happens to me every year at this time.  A week of bad weather feels like a month, and when the sun peeks out everyone goes crazy- yelling and shouting "The sky is on fire!! The sky is on fire!!"  Luckily the rain clouds come quickly in to extinguish the blaze.

"Really? Snow? I told Martha it was too early to come back..."

 There is this little promise.

Peony.  Can you see it?

and soon, soon there will be this.

Early summer garden from a couple years ago.

So patience my crabby friends (avian and other!).  It will happen.  and until then we can trust in Elizabeth Bowen's words:

“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”

Let's hope the winter day closes soon.  Like real soon...