I don’t care that the temperature drops back below freezing on Thursday, I’m calling it now: spring has finally begun. Thus begins two months of relative comfort before the blast furnace of summer burns your skin to a crisp. So I’m going outside. In the meantime, here’s some Dressy Bessy, who I have to imagine are proud sponsors of springtime and everything that goes along with it.

Except spring flooding from snowmelt. Maybe not snowmelt.