It is spring! I know this because I spent the after­noon sit­ting in a sun­beam in the Botan­ics, feed­ing cashew nuts to squir­rels and won­der­ing who all of the other people in the Botan­ics at 3pm on a week­day were.

(Admit­tedly, it snowed a little when I was on the bus home, but I’m pretty sure that doesn’t count against spring.)