One day, in a few months, I will walk outside

[MIButterfly]

and I will notice, for the first time (although it slowly had been happening), that the grass is green and the leaves are coming back on the trees and I will smile. It always comes as such a surprise and revelation to me that I didn't notice that it was happening until it was there. Then this horrible, miserable, bitterly cold winter will be a memory and future conversations will start with "remember how bad the winter of 2026 was?"

Oh, how I look forward to that day!

[ColoringFool]

1. I'm Hoping For The Same, But I Have A Slightly Different "Horrible" Thing....

To forget about the last year, IYKWIMAITYD.

[Ocelot II]

2. I don't care about the weather. It's been below zero here for at least a week,

and I'd rather have this kind of ice than the other ICE. I'm afraid that ICE will still be here when spring comes, and good weather won't be a relief if it is.

[Skittles]

8. the weather doesn't bother me either

I still take an hour walk in the middle of the night, it was 8 degrees and snow is everywhere

not a fan of the electric bills though......

[anciano]

3. The beauty and wonder of nature

bring me happiness and contentment. I enjoy the gift of each new day that comes my way.

[Walleye]

4. This is one of my favorite poems

For winter’s rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

– Algernon Charles Swinburne

[MIButterfly]

5. Thank you, Walleye!

It's lovely!

[rsdsharp]

6. The late Father Andrew Greeley called that time when the trees were just beginning to leaf out

Tthe green lace of April.

[electric_blue68]

7. Ah! Poetic!

[Grim Chieftain]

9. Beautiful thoughts, MIButterfly

I hope we have a long, gentle spring.

[debm55]

10. Me too. So looking forward to it.