April showers and other nastiness

It has been a dreary past couple of days, and it's really hard to see the natural beauty in the city when all you see out your window is frozen dog-walkers and puffed-up fluff-ball birdies trying to stay warm.

So here is a gratuitous shot of spring to give you a fix of hopefulness until the sun decides to come back out.  This one is from a sunnier day; a dutch elm doing its best to bud.  Hopefully, the trees in your neighborhood are doing the same.

Winter is over for real this time.  Probably.