Where Oh Where Is Spring?

This photo was taken in 2008 but it illustrates my thoughts today.  Where's spring?  Officially on the calendar it is tomorrow.

At this moment it is buried in my yard. The snow is as high as those tables are tall; and that is not where I've shoveled and created snowbanks.  That is just how much has fallen here.  The forecast for the remainder of the week is snow, snow and more snow.  I've been watching impatiently for the little suns to appear in the long range forecast but it looks as though Mr. Sun won't be coming out anytime soon.

I am a winter person and love snow but I am not greedy.  I have enough snow already!  I've been daydreaming for months of the shrubs, trees and raised garden beds that will be going into my new, extended backyard.  It looks as if I will be daydreaming for a long while yet.  If it keeps snowing, it's going to take until July or longer for all of it to melt.

I was excited when the temperature warmed a couple of weeks ago.  I could see the tops of the three foot tall dogwoods that I planted last fall.  They have disappeared again beneath another 12 inch layer of snow from this past week.  It has replaced the melted snow and added a couple more inches.

I shoveled three times over the past four days.  The snow banks are taller than me.  If there is any large amount of snow over the next few days, I am going to need a conveyor belt to take the snow to the top of the banks on either side of my driveway.

It is still dark out but it appears that the flakes did let up overnight.  I better quit my whining and finish my coffee.  As soon as it is light out, I need to get the shovel and search for my path to the woodshed before the next clouds pass over and leave their share of winter white in my yard, again.