This is more like it!!!

Well it was a drier and hotter than usual summer, a rainier than usual fall and a colder and snowier winter than it usually is in BC. So where is this fabled wonderful weather that makes BC such a paradise? Well we got some today. Today, February 1oth, it is blue skies, sunny and a balmy 13 celsius! The grass is green (mind you that's pretty much a permanent thing around here) and the tulips and daffodils are already beginning to bloom! When we lived in Saskatchewan, we were lucky if it was above freezing during February and as a kid in Northwestern Ontario, we were either cursing the groundhog who predicted 6 more weeks of winter, or we were laughing at his prediction that spring was just around the corner. If spring starts this early, I think I can manage through the grey, rainy winter!! Here's some pictures from this afternoon of Bekah in our yard without hat and mits, and in her fall jacket!! And my condolences to friends and family in Eastern Canada and the US and elsewhere who are still in the deep freeze!