On to the next record

I just kicked the jade plants out of the house for the summer.  They look pretty unhappy but will soon take off growing in the strong light.

Just a few weeks ago we were shoveling snow, and yesterday it hit 75 degrees, a record for the warmest winter day ever in Seattle. Today, the last full day of winter, it will be even warmer, easily breaking the high of 63 degrees set back in 1951. Just to put these temperatures in perspective, mid to upper 70's is the average high temperature in Seattle in July.

Spring is suddenly bursting out in our neighborhood.  
 

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

A.E. Housman