Waiting For Spring (an impatient rant)

      So It's April and spring is supposedly here, although you'd never know it by the weather. As I write this, there is an ice storm blowing outside with freezing rain warnings in effect. Paris held their annual Maple Syrup Festival today. When I went downtown to acquire some  necessities of life, I noticed that they didn't draw much of a crowd. Probably had something to do with the freezing rain and ice pellets driven by gale force winds! I know, I know. I have a marked propensity to start these posts with a mini weather report. Ah well, so be it. 

Part of my commute to work.Taken in more pleasant conditions.

     I did manage to photograph some spring crocuses that were blooming beside the trail that I use on my way to and from work. You know that you you live in a small town when your commute to work involves a "trail". 

The aforementioned crocuses.

                                                                                                                                      

                                           I'm almost beginning to hate the crocuses and the false hope that they inspire!  The lying little bastards!                                                                                                               

The steps leading down to my home tonight. April 14, 2018.

                                                                                                                                                                 I mean This is ridiculous! It's Springtime! I want to photograph daffodils and tulips. I want to photograph apple blossoms and the infinite variations in the shades of green as the trees burst into leaf. Dammit! I live in Southern Ontario not Tuktoyaktuk!

     Oh well. There's always the stuff that no photographer is ever caught up on. I have  files that I need to print. I have a lot of files that I need to back up to a separate hard drive. And of course there's always editing.... There's ALWAYS editing.

    Spring, I mean REAL Spring will come soon enough. I mean it will come....RIGHT? 


                                                   ...more later

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