It's in the Air

It sounded like it was raining, but it wasn't; it was the sound of melting, particularly snow disappearing off the roofs. That was on Sunday when the temperature climbed well above freezing, but I could still hear it on Monday when it was barely above freezing.

That is when I took this picture off the snow in our yard.

I know that it seems like a lot, and, by golly, it is. But it must have dropped a foot or two from its maximum height of not so very long ago. We even chipped the ice of the driveway. It's little glimmers of hope like this that I latch onto at this time of year like a drowning person clinging to anything that floats.

This ↓ is looking across the street. You may recall a photo in which the yellow marker was only partly visible above the snow. It melts faster on the other side of the street because they get the afternoon sun.

It will go quickly now. I don't mean in another day or two but as the month progresses. It is inevitable and inexorable, even if we get another storm, which we often do in March and sometimes even in April.

We could begin to feel the change over the past week, even before we had the last two very mild days. The sun was higher and brighter and lasted longer. The hint of things to come was already in the air.

Addendum: Of course, we came under a weather advisory last night and conditions are a bit poor this morning, but it didn't rise to the level of school bus cancellations.