February

[shalott]

I love sunny days in winter when the blue sky looks so deceptively and wonderfully warm that I have to fight the compulsion to roll down my car windows on my way home from work.

I love looking outside and seeing the snow melt off of the rooftops so quickly that it looks like a summer downpour.

I love smiling in the cool breeze of a warm day in February instead of flinching in the cold bite of January.

I love looking at grass again, free of a blanket of snow, for the first time in weeks and weeks as if remembering an old friend.

I love the first hints of spring...
but today, it was cold.