WE HIT OUR FORECAST HIGH OF 70 THIS AFTERNOON
The sun came out and the temperature shot up.  I rushed out, of course, to take in some of the welcomed warmth and everyone else did the same thing!  Every place you went, it was wall to wall people who have been shut in, out of the cold, for much too long.

I took a good look at the trees and I'm guessing that the bare branches we have now will be dressed out in a fresh new green in three or four days.  The buds are just getting ready to pop.