Oh yeah, it’s -right- around the corner

A local greenhouse (that is only open in the warm weather, cowards…) starts the countdown to Spring every year at the end of January.

10 weeks seems like an eternity right now. Especially with the cold and the blowing snow that was coming in right about the time I took this… and continued through the night.

But next week when this sign flips to the single digit of 9, well, the wait seems remarkably shortened, and it feels as if a load has been lifted off of our shoulders.

The days are getting longer in tiny increments..every day we gain a couple of minutes of light.

The seed catalogues start coming in the mail (aka garden porn).

My son is practicing for the SPRING Musical at his school

There’s a nip of hope in the air. Or was that frostbite?

And meanwhile, to the west across the frozen tundra in San Francisco –and on the left coast of this blog– it was a lovely 66 degrees and sunny. Sigh.

Onward.