Cherry Blossoms in Reston

Cherry Blossoms, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.

Today is the last day of Winter. The Cherry Blossoms have come in early due to a mild winter and a wonderfully warm March, and the neighborhood is alive with spring colors. Loving it!

It still didn’t prevent the Missus and I from getting into a deep conversation about how, instinctively, as humans, we are so greatly relieved at the coming of the Spring. Genetically we know deep down that Winter is the freezing and starving time- even though neither of us have known a real day of hunger or exposure- that is if you don’t count us freezing our asses off on the first day together in our new home before Potomac Gas hooked up our heat- but we still had firewood. Yet despite our lives of ease, we still know, as animals, that this is the time of the year to begin to celebrate life and the thankfulness that Winter is no more.