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i woke up today to birds chirping and the smell of rain.  the past week has been gorgeous outside and the snow has finally melted away.

but i know that even though we were able to do things like this:

there will most likely be one more round of this:

if you are a newbie to living around here, you would certainly be fooled into thinking that spring is finally here.  ha!  we sure were fooled the first couple of years we lived here.  but after getting hit 2 years in a row with a snow storm in late march/early april (the snow photo is from april 2007), never again!

i will be pleasantly surprised if this warming trend lasts through the rest of march.  but as for now, i'm keeping my boots and winter coat handy...