For today, the skies have cleared, the sun is shining !

Rays of light -- luscious, bright rays -- are brightening our world again.

~ When it's not always rainin'..there'll be days like like this ~

 (Please play for full effect of how great today feels.) 

Daffodil and narcissus, crocus and pansy, all blooming. Birds greedily grab fat worms from our bounteous flooded bog of a back yard...

...tendrils of warmth reach my bones.

Yes.

For the first time in over six months -- six months -- the temperature shyly dances toward seventy degrees.

Winter is long here.

~ When there's no one complainin'...there'll be days like this.. ~

  (our violas waiting for snow to melt, just two weeks ago)

Also for the first time in six months, for one shining Today, I'm finding a smooth rhythm in my new waltz with Life in my fifties... 

~ Everything drifts into place, like a flick of a switch. ~ 

The promise of more blossoms, the warming rays, my heart's desires, all conspire...

~ Well, my momma told me, there'd be days like this ~  

( flowers soon to come...) 

~ When you don't need to worry...there'll be days like this. ~  

 (...even more to come...)

~ On days like this ~

 I dance. 

~ I must remember...there'll be days like this ~ 

This year, here in southern Oregon, for one day of long-missed sun, this last day of March...is going out like a sweet baby lamb. 

May Warmth enter into your days... 

~ 

 The Paperwhite Narcissus image courtesy of fireflyforest.net.

All other images are from our yard, some now, some last year.