I know that it is still winter here in Maine but I am getting soooo tired of snow! We had a beautiful sunny day yesterday and today for most of the day, the sun was shining again. When I looked at the thermometer earlier, it was over 4o°. The snow was plop, plop, plopping off of our metal roof as it continued to soak up the rays and release the snow that is piled up there. Some warm days, it is more like an avalanche but today we mostly heard the occasional plop as bits of hardened snow hit the ground or the decks.  The thoughts of spring tease us on days like these. My thoughts turn to green grass, peepers and flowers. Well mine do but I have to admit that there are a whole lot of folks that ski and snowmobile that are cheering the coming storm.

The weatherman tells us that we had better not get used to this lovely weather because it is just a brief reprieve.  A “nor’easter”  is bearing down on us, and even as I write this, the sky is getting darker and temperature is starting to drop. We are told by tomorrow at this time we can expect to be buried under another twelve to twenty inches of snow—sigh!!

For the rest of today, I will surround myself with flowers. I have Webshots on my computer and I’ve turned off all of those wintry photo’s that seemed so apropos last November right up until now.  Today, I am changing my Webshots so that the photo’s that show up on my computer screen are flowers, birds, and gardens. I am going to review the gardening catalogs and magazines from last summer. I found this great photo in a gardening magazine and I will imagine myself walking through this beautiful garden.

For tonight, I will think green…gardens, grass, birds singing. Tomorrow, back to reality…I will probably be shoveling a foot or more of snow from the decks. Just a few weeks until we leave for Florida.