Happy Fools Day.  I am feeling much too sorry for myself today to play any tricks, lol!

I cannot even tell you how sick I am of winter!  I feel like it is never going to end!  Even now as I look out the window I notice that it is snow a bit - SNOWING!!!  What?  I do feel like I have the winter blues and could use some sunshine to give me a lift.  I know I am Canadian and supposed to love all things winter but, shh, don't tell...I hate it!  I mean we have been there, done that - time to move on to spring!

So tired of looking out my window and seeing this.  Snow and dormant (let's be honest - dead looking) plants.

It is totally dragging me down and it definitely has an effect on my creativity.  I have not been creating at all these last few days.  I have had insomnia for a few nights which doesn't help but I got some new goodies in the mail today and nothing.  Nada.  Zero.  Ziltch.  No desire to create with them - just spread it all out so I can admire it.  It all feels so wrong, lol!  Why?? **insert me shaking my fist at how wrong it all is***

So with all my beautiful new Basic Grey sitting on my table and not getting any attention from me (it is the new stuff that I am making a bunch of classes from - I will keep you posted on those classes - you really do not want me designing classes when I am feeling this creatively sorry for myself - LOL) I went outside to look for signs of spring.  Well, actually Magnus dragged me out, kicking and screaming and I brought the camera along to cheer myself up. 

You know what I discovered?  There are lots of signs of spring (they are just not far along enough!!). 

What I like to call  "pre-signs" of spring.

Water.  Everywhere.  The thaw just started the other day so everything is flooded.

And toys - long lost in the snow and now being rediscovered.  (This 'puddle' was to the top of Magnus' boots - he loved it!).  But look - there are bare areas!  Spring has got to be soon right?

This is my driveway right now.

At first I felt like everything just looked like a giant watery mess.  Bits and pieces all over the place and just generally looking gross.  But then I looked through my camera and looked at the details.  It was pre-spring.  We need this soppy mess in order to get to the good stuff - green leaves!  That is what I like about taking photos. 

Looking through my lense makes me focus and see things in a new way.

That's it.  My deep thought for the day, lol!  This is not a new discovery for me - my love of taking photos and how it changes the way I see the world but today I got to appreciate it again.

And then look what I discovered.  Something that really made my heart sing.

Burried under the garden mulch some early daffodils & tulips.  **insert heart singing here**  Planted just for this reason - so I would know that after a long winter that spring eventually will come.

Ahh.

So I guess spring is on the way for me now. 

I know that some of you who read this have had spring already start in your area (grrrr) and are probably thinking - what?   Just know that you are lucky.  Enough said.