Goodbye January!

Somehow seeing the end of January always makes me feel like SPRING is right around the corner.

Birds singing in the dawn, green grass everywhere, flowers shouting their colors, rainbows and roses and all that good stuff.

It's always a nice little feeling, saying goodbye to January, while it lasts.

Of course it never lasts long.

Take tonight, for instance.

Goodbye January ... and hello sub-zero temps as February comes along.

Where are the singing birds?
Where are the shouting flowers?
Where are the green lawns?
Where are all those rainbows and roses and such?

Not here, that's for sure.

Here and now, there's snow on the ground and more in the forecast. There are ice-slicks everywhere. There are plummeting temperatures.

We are still in the throes of winter, with or without January.

Even so, the greening gets closer day by day. 

We can stand February. It's three days shorter than January. 
Then comes March - it often brings blizzards howling down on us ... but not always.
And April is right behind it. April is never ever EVER as wonderful as we think it ought to be, but guess what. Sometimes it is. 

Me, I'm seriously looking forward to May Day.

Because that's really when it all begins, the greening, the singing, the shouting, and the rainbows and roses are on their way!