How I Know It's Spring

At first glance out the window, I don't see any evidence of spring being here, but a closer look shows that it is. There are many subtle indications and some are in-your-face, so if you take the time to look, maybe it's spring where you are, too!

• I saw a goldfinch yesterday and heard it sing.
  
  
• I've traded in my snow boots for my mud boots.
  
  
• I smell skunks.
  
  
• The birds are singing a regular symphony in the mornings.
  
  
• Peeps in the grocery stores.
  
  
• No more scraping car windows!
  
  
• The kitties are rolling around on their backs on the cement.
  
  
• Little green cabbage heads of sedum are rising up out the of the depths of the earth.
  
  
• My nose hairs don't freeze when I breathe in.
  
  
• The ground makes that squishy noise when you walk on it.
  
  
• The mourning doves are cooing in the evenings.
  
  
• My calendar is beginning to have events scheduled on it.
  
  
• Kittens! (No...not ours!)
  
  
• Flood Watches are scrolling across the bottom of the TV screen.
  
  
• I've started seeds indoors for planting out later.
  
  
• Even the inside cats are shedding more than usual.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Canadian Geese are passing through, heading north.
  
  
• Daylight Saving Time.
  
  
• Whole lotta heavin' goin' on! →
  
  
• "Daffodil Days" for cancer.research
  
  
• The house flies have come out en force.
  
  
• I saw an ant outside yesterday!
  

Last year's pansies, started from
seed inside with Jiffy pellets

And then there's this . . .