Spring!!!

Kind of a funny thing, seasons. While in general they never really change, we can't help but complain that this years winter was so much worse than the last. Or the summers always seem to be rainy. But despite our constant need to complain about something, I will say there is nothing like that first real day of spring.

For those of you that don't live in the north you may not experience the dramatic change we do. But as we all know here, there will always be those 2 or 3 days in February or early March when the temp spikes. Everyone says the same thing, "Hope this lasts!!", they're all wrong. Just as we start to get excited about it Mother Nature throws a haymaker and puts us back in our place, that bitch. We snap back to the reality that spring is still a long way away.

Then, comes a day like yesterday. It creeps up on us, one day it's 28 degrees, then a few later it's 32, then another day or so it's 40. And suddenly 67! Yes, we've dropped again, but this time only to the mid-40s. This my friends, is the onset of spring we have been waiting for. It's finally here! In a few short weeks we'll all be running around in shorts and packing up our winter gear. I'll stop short of declaring Winter 2010 over, but it's on the way out, and that dear old Mother Nature is making up for those dark, windy, cold days she put us through.

Patios and rooftops will be open soon, and when they do...you'll know where to find me.

-JB