OT welcome sweet spring time

It's well below freezing today, snow on the ground, but brilliant
sunshine. I saw a couple of flies outdoors in spite of it all. The
birds are hungry, nature provides! (And so do I. Mixed bird seed.
First thing this morning, before I got round to putting out a new
delivery, there was a squirrel looking in the window, probably
wondering when we'd be up.)
Roberta in D

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:17:29 -0600, "Polly Esther"
wrote:

You are so right, Susan. One year I planted the front flower bed 3 times;
first bunch froze, 2nd ones washed down the street. Wiser now, I don't even
think about it until March 18th. The yellow jasmine is uproariously
blooming by the sewing room door; little does she know. In 2010 we went
straight from 20 degrees to 80 degrees. Missed spring altogether. Maybe we
need to get a Farmer's Almanac? Polly

"Susan Laity Price" wrote in message Usually when you post about the
birds arriving for your spring we are
covered in snow with single digit temperatures. Your happy
descriptions only make me feel worse. This year we are having such
funny weather our trees think it is spring. Yesterday the temperature
in Chicago was 57. We have had some snow but it is gone in a few days.
Of course those of us who think negative thoughts keep saying that we
will pay for this warm January weather with snow in April.

Susan