As I sit here writing this… it’s snowing. Not quite what we expected here in Southern New England on this first day of spring 2015, but we’ve seen record amounts of snow this winter so what’s one more measly snow event to true blue New Englanders like us. Right? I said, right?? Not to worry though, because despite the depressing thought of shoveling the driveway once again, spring is here and it won’t be long before we’re out primping and preening our gardens.

So, in an effort to lift your weary spirits, I give you the words of Mark Twain and a glorious little photo from a spring gone by.

Enjoy my friends, and get ready for spring, ’cause it’s here!

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is.
And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

~Mark Twain