On a cold blue morning, nature slowly drips winter away...drip by drip I hear it leaving. It sounds like a brook running outside my study window. Running far away I hope. I choose to believe it because I am in my usual place by now - sick of dirty snow and cold winds. Today is a warmer day but without the sun one would never know it. The dirty snow stubbornly holds on even though the temperatures have been above 30 for a few days.

Looking at the bright side, we have only 2 more months and I can use this time to get some inside projects accomplished. Spring is not far away.