Aching for Spring

(Taken from the living room window on Thursday morning.)

Enough already!

I'd be grumbling SOMETHING FIERCE if I hadn't cheated and gone south.

Here are the final shots of Island Hopping with Ms. Leah.

We spent the last two days in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Still standing is the old Spanish fortress - El Morro.

Some of the bastion walls are 18 ft. thick.

The fortress-building project began in 1539.

In other words, these cannon balls are really, really old.

Old San Juan is home to about ten thousand pigeons.

See these feathered darlings playing beneath an ancient tree?

Don't these trees have amaaaaazing CHARACTER?!

Can you just imagine how many hurricanes they've endured?

And yet they LIVE. And stay GREEN.


Sigh.


Well, I suppose it would get boring to have summer all year long.

But I could sure use a few crocuses followed by a chorus of daffodils.