what may or may not be hard reality

This is what I found beneath my mailbox this morning!! Yay!! I saw the first spring flowers about a week ago (up until then we've had snow, the ground-covering kind, not the 'small patches on northern slopes' kind), along south-facing walls of other people's houses, but my flower-bed is a little exposed, so it takes a few extra days. Of course, the pile of snow that has accumulated at the circle at the end of the street from snowplows through the winter is still there, but it's significantly smaller now. Spring is so here. Finally.








and two close-ups