Spring Has Sprung! Well, Sort Of ...

After the miserable bust of the "Snowquester" earlier this week, when the much-hyped 8-10 inches of snow turned out to be about three inches of wet snow that turned to rain and vanished pretty much overnight, all of us in the National Capitol Region were ready for some decent weather ... and we seem to have gotten it! Yesterday was a gorgeous day, with brilliant blue sky, bright sunshine, and a high in the mid-60's, and today is exactly the same, with the exception of a few high, thin clouds. You'd almost think Spring was here!

Yesterday Agnes and I took the opportunity to take a nice long walk around the neighborhood, and I was able to get my compost pile raked out and stirred up in preparation for planting this year's garden. I didn't get quite energetic enough to start weeding and raking out my garden plots, or to buy new pots for my herbs, but it's still early ... and who is better to put the "pro" in "procrastination" than I?

This morning we went to visit our local grandchildren, and took advantage of the glorious weather to get them outside for some fresh air and exercise. Leya conned her father into opening up the zip line that he installed last summer (you can read about that adventure here), and she and Elise had a great time zipping down the line ...

Leya went first ...

And Elise followed ...

Their father rigged up a tow line to enable the seat to be towed back to the starting point, which saves quite a bit of jogging from one end of the line to the other.  Elise insisted on pulling her sister back, which she accomplished with much energy, if a bit more slowly than Leya might have wanted ...

And I couldn't help taking a few pictures of a more artistic nature, given the beautiful sky being massaged by the bare branches of the trees ...

Tomorrow is supposed to be another beautiful day, but since I'll spend it at work, I guess I'll just have to take it on faith. I just hope we're through with this #$&%! on-again-off-again winter and that spring is around the corner. I know Peg is!

Have a good day. Enjoy the good weather while it's here ... it won't be long before we're bitching about the summer heat.

More thoughts on Tuesday.

Bilbo