Remind me to take pictures when spring really starts.

So, it's supposed to get up to almost 60 degrees here today, which is quite exciting. Any day now we'll see the first shoots of the the crocus and daffodils poking up. When I first moved to Chicago, I was amazed at how black the soil is, and I thought maybe people constantly were using manure or potting soil. But no, America's breadbasket (well, corn and soybean basket) really does have black soil that smells so good after it rains I like it as much as I like the smell of the desert after it rains. Anyway, I guess the point is that the weather's beautiful today, and it will be again tomorrow, and this could be the beginning of the end of winter since we're not supposed to have a high below freezing for at least the next five days. My legs are bare under my skirt today and I feel like dancing, at least a little. It'll probably snow at least one more time before we're really done, but today I can't care. Bare legs!