Yippee!

I have just been for a walk by the park without my winter coat (not through the park because the snow's still too deep to make walking possible), saw a chipmunk and half a dozen Canada geese, one of them landing on the Rideau with a splash, and heard the raucous call of a red-winged blackbird. Everywhere there's a dripping and a trickling sound. It's the Canadian SPRING.

Finally.