Hopefully,

spring is almost sprung! It's been raining for two days but staying above freezing, most of the snow is gone except for a few stubborn piles and there are robins everywhere and bulbs poking up! So I'm hopeful that spring is finally coming but still expecting another cold spell. For some reason it brings out the poetry in me so I'll subject you all to another poem I found while readig:

For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the seasons of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begns.

--From Atalanta in Calydon
Algernon Chrales Swinburne