Short Month, Long Winter

                 Two candle-climbing angels, without candles, guard a glass Valentine heart.  

February is inching its way to the month's end.

A glance at the calendar noted there are only
28 days in  this month.

A memorized elementary school blurb from childhood flashed through my mind.

"Thirty days has September, 
April, June, and November.
All the rest have 31, except February, that has 28."

Yup.  That little ditty is still stuck in the brain after seven decades of life and that's amazing.

So it's time to take down the beautiful Valentine's Day cards, strip the dollhouse of hearts and tiny Valentines, and put away other telltale signs of the day of love.

More snow fell on top of the many inches we had already received this week. 

However, it was not half as bad as some parts of Massachusetts that got whomped.

Here's goodbye to Cupid. 

Hello to more thoughts of the spring, including gorgeous flowering plants and heavenly bird song,  to come!

Hope springs eternal!