Merging Signs

Today is the first of my spring concerts, with the pops orchestra. The riverbanks are finally free of ice. All that is left is compacted piles of dirty ice and snow in large parking lots from snow plows. We may even be free of ice below our back porch by weekend's end!

The cats have arranged themselves in the strips of sun coming through the front windows, each just big enough for one cat. They have been doing this for a while now, but the slots of sun are coming earlier.

Even the players in Washington D.C. have managed to pull out a win. With just a few hours to spare and furlough notices being printed for federal workers, a governmental shut down has been averted. The tourists arriving in the Capitol for the Cherry Blossom festivities will not be surrounded by piles of garbage bags by week's end. And the trees outside our front window are sprouting buds.

For the moment, it must be spring.