Please hurry. . .

Anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely HATE the winter. I can handle November--you are just beginning to adjust to closed toed shoes and warm sweaters. In December you have the holidays to look forward to and that sort of distracts you from all the cold ugliness outside. But come January when you take down all the Christmas decorations and the house looks bare, you are left with this sense of longing for whats to come. Spring is still months away, but it couldn't come sooner! PLEASE hurry up!

A shot of our front porch last spring. Obviously a work in progress at the time!