just like the way calendar summer STARTS on Midsummer's Eve, it is already spring even though calendar spring hasn't started yet.
Signs of spring:
Lillooet melted out
Squamish sunny and warm
Daffodils growing
Tulips busting out ("what's better than a rose on my piano? Tulips on my organ.")
No more Lions Winter Ale or Shaftebury Winter Solstice or Quelquechose on the shelves, Maple Cream Ale is out.
Still light out when I drive home.
Cornices.
Wearing shorts for the first time this year.
MEC changed over the store from fall/winter to spring/summer.
Robins chirping outside my window in the morning.
Sun rises before I do.
Taxes to do.
Ate last mandarin orange from 10 lb box of them today.