Waiting for spring

It's been quite the winter around here. We have had more snow than we have had in years. Each week the forecast shows that the temps will start to move to 0C and just above, but like that watery mirage on the highways in the summer, it never quite arrives.  A week ago we had a massive blizzard that shut down a good portion of the province. Snow and wind and more snow. The snowbanks are everywhere. My lawns are covered with about four feet of snow and the banks are up to six feet. On our school playground, the tractors have come to plow paths so the kids can be outside and the snowhills they have created are massive. 

We keep waiting for that promise of spring, and it will come. Yesterday was -1C but the bright sun and the reflection started that melting process on the streets and the water is everywhere. The slushy paths freeze at night and are tough to drive in, in the mornings.  I know many parts of our province and in southern Manitoba are bracing for big floods. I remember the flooding in 97, when DS2 was born and how bad it got.

So while we wait for spring to come, we hope it comes a bit at a time, so mother nature can evaporate as much of that water as possible.

I can't wait to go to the farm and see the first prairie crocuses pop out. I see those as my sign of hope each year that a new start begins.

Everybody needs a little hope now and again.

Have a happy Good Friday everyone.