First mud,now robins!

We were driving down the road last week, a couple miles from home, when large flock of robins flew in front of the car. I know robins often are "caught" in snow storms, but to me, it was another long awaited sign of spring. We have had rain over the last few days and the snow is quickly disappearing. Things we had forgotten to put away this fall, and some permanent fixtures of our landscape, are now starting to peek out from under their frozen tomb. We have a concrete statue of a pheasant outside our door and yesterday I was startled when I came out the door and a pheasant head was poking through the snowbank. In return for the rain and warmer weather, we are experiencing dense fog most days. The frost has "gone out" in places around our yard and near the front door so the puddles are less, but looking at all the snow piles around the perimeter of the yard, it will be a long time before it is dry. I hope you are seeing signs of spring where you are--we were visiting friends and the iris were poking through on the south side of a building--a sure sign spring can't be far away.