Everything is blooming crazy with this unpredictable weather. It was freezing two nights ago and it’s 70 degrees right now. I’ve seen camellias and azaleas in bloom at the same time. My daffodils came up but never bloomed. This morning, I saw snow bells in a little flower bed at my son’s school when I dropped him off, and the wisteria are budding on the vines in my backyard.

But the spring is here, there’s no denying it . . . we know this because the yellow pollen is more and more apparent in ever-thicker layers. And the hyacinths are blooming! Only six more days of winter— I think I can make it.