For a second there, I thought it was spring...

Last week, Aaron and I were walking on a foot path in town and saw flowers blooming! I am terrible at learning and remembering plant names but I think one type was snow drops. The other had bright yellow petals with a ring of dark green leaves around the base. No idea what they are. But I hoped they meant spring! I know it's early but it hasn't been a very hard winter here and I have learned not to apply my understanding of Midwest climate patterns to northern Germany. July should be hot, sunny and fairly dry, not sixty-five degrees with three straight weeks of rain. So maybe there's a yin and yang to things and spring arrives the first week of February...

I guess not. At 7:00 yesterday morning it started snowing. They were big wet flakes being flung to the earth by strong wind. It snowed the entire day and was still doing so last night at 9:00. It must have been four or five inches of really wet heavy stuff. We happily left our snow shovels in Kalamazoo for the new owner of our house (and I do believe he's needed them this winter). So, I was out with a garden shovel scraping a path for Aaron to get to the door! Ha! I took this picture this morning and I can hear the snow melting off the roof so it won't last long. But maybe I better not hold my breath for spring just yet!