Spring was pushed out of the way by the strong final grip of winter.

The ornamental pear trees in the neighborhood are just as glorious as the earlier cherry trees, but they stink. They are also weak in the winter snow weight and often fail.

And so the daffodils are a bit early, like most other things, but they still present a nice view of the season just around the corner.

And so despite the early warm temps in February, neither have the robins arrived or the forsythia bushes bloomed until now…now spring is arriving.