Ohio weather

Today is a lovely, sunny day and so warm I barely need a coat. Which is absolutely fabulous, especially when one compares it to the weather of the last few weeks. It seems to alternate: sun, snow, rain, icky snow, SUN, snow, snow, rain, rain, rain, snow, SUN, snow, rain, etc.

Here are some pictures from the past two weeks:

This is from last Thursday, taken outside my window because it was too dreary to go outside. I also thought the water droplets on the branches looked nice.

This was taken literally the next afternoon, almost exactly 24 hours later. The weekend alternated between rain and generally dreary skies--except Monday when it was briefly sunny--until we got bright sunshine today!

(This picture wasn't actually taken today, but the weather now is exactly what it was then: lovely.)

And while my Midwest-resident friends who live in Michigan keep telling me that Midwest weather is always crazy like this, I will remain hopeful that we will have sunshine through next week! It will make midterms that much more bearable anyway...

The best part about the (probable?) arrival of spring is that I hear birds in the morning again. Every spring, I forget how much I missed the birds over winter.

(This picture was taken in Israel in December--way up on Masada. But that's a story for another post...)

Today's Delight (in case the sun isn't enough): a quote from a favorite childhood story.
 
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think.  Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.  ~A.A. Milne