I recognize the irony of calling the weekend "spring-like" when we’re several weeks into spring already.  The truth is that it hasn’t felt much like spring at all yet, and the piles of snow had yet to disappear from the landscape.

This weekend however was different.  The sun was shining, and the temperature got up into the low teens both days (mid-fifties Fahrenheit), and the snow has officially melted away.  I love these early spring days, where it seems like the entire neighbourhood piles out into the street.  The boys started a pickup road hockey game, and the girls decorated the sidewalks with chalk (the separation being more of an age distinction than a gender distinction).  The adults supervised, and chatted at the end of their driveways.

As for official signs of spring:

• We saw several robins plucking worms out of the moist soil
• I cut down some pussy-willows for the kids
• I relocated the snow blower from the garage to the backyard shed
• We have officially lost one parking space in the garage to bikes, wagons, and other various summery toys

Welcome, spring!