Welcome to Spring

Today is the first official day of Spring. However, if you live in Vancouver, you'd think it was a lot closer to the first week of January.

There is a lot of snow on the ground where I live, and in Abbotsford (just east of Vancouver) there is about a foot on the ground. The highway into the city is gridlocked for about 10 miles and the conditions are icy throughout the area.

This is not typical Vancouver weather. Normally it would be raining for the next 6 weeks or so and the temperature slowly rise until sometime in late April or early May the clouds would part and reveal a beautiful, colourful, lush city. Not this year though.

(Ed. note -- clearly I wasn't awake when I wrote this)