Every winter I wind up saying:
Rain rain go away!
So why did I move to Oregon?
Egads! It's dark out at 7:50AM!
Every winter I wake up in the dark and wonder why I moved to Oregon!
Then it all starts changing – the rain becomes showers, then drizzle, and then it stops. The mornings get lighter earlier, dusk comes later and – Spring arrives!
Spring is very green!
Spring brings goslings!
Spring is when we can sit outside with our coffee in the morning sun and laughingly say:
When you live in Portland – winter can be yukky wet [at least for me] and it's not great when winter weather keeps on into Spring.
BUT – when you see the first few batches of goslings – you sort of forget the yukky stuff and start counting babies. This is a neighborhood activity and we worry when some disappear and are happy when all of them make it to goose-adulthood!
Geese are very protective parents and you'll see one telling another to stay away from "MY" babies!
Next should come the baby mallards but they seem not to have produced many in the last few years. And they are not great parents 
What makes it REALLY Spring for you?
Great day today so I took woof [Sam] to the school yard for a run.
Glad i had the camera with me.