All right, winter, SERIOUSLY. Enough already.

Henry looked up from his Legos the other day to announce, "We need some color around here."

"Agreed," I said.

We talked paint colors for a bit. He went back to playing. Then he looked up again.
"I want Spring to get here now," he said.

Holy crap, kid. You and me both.

Would you look at this? This was during my morning walk with Charlie.

Those falling things? Those are wet heavy snowflakes the size of dinner plates. STOP IT.

UNACCEPTABLE, weather. Cut it out.

Charlie got wet. His paws were all muddy. He does not enjoy either of those things. Weather, you are being stupid.

On the bright side, our book is due in four days, so at least the slushy grayness is keeping me inside, where I belong. But come March 1st, I want to start seeing some signs of Spring approaching. Or I don't know what I'll do.

Comments

[LizPres]

Completely triply agreed, here in DC it is just as muckity ... spring, HURRY!

[Emily]

I hear you. But knowing Utah we'll have some 60-degree weather in March followed by a foot of snow in April. Yuck.

[MaryB]

I'm with you, Alice! I live outside Washington, D.C. We've gotten 60-some inches so far. I'm finally getting cheered by seeing patches of bare earth and grass here and there. We were fortunate to be missed by last night's storm and I feel for you having gotten it again.

I went running the other day and decided to run through a park I normally traverse. Well, the plows had lined all of the parking lots and blocked all pathways with 10-foot glaciers. I thought I'd never escape!! How long will THOSE suckers take to melt, I ask you????

[Tina]

I couldn't agree more. We had 4 more inches of snow. For me, it's not the snow that is SO bad...it's the below 0 wind chills! But I have been dreaming of warm weather and flip flops!

[Barb]

Love that first picture. Is that your street? Just beautiful.

I feel your pain on the weather. We're getting smacked, too.

[Emily]

Chiming in with the mid-Atlantic-ers - I'm in Baltimore, where we got those twin blizzards. I'm really feeling for y'all up there right now - doesn't sound fun in the slightest.

After the second blizzard, I vowed not to complain ONE BIT about the heat and humidity this summer. I've always liked the cold better because at least you can layer, whereas in the summer there's only so much you can take off and go out acceptably in public; but in the heat, at least you can go outside and let your kids swim in the pool or run around in the sprinklers or throw water balloons at each other or SOMETHING. Staying mostly indoors for almost 2 weeks was pretty brutal.

Good luck with the snowicane!

[Kevin (Always Home and Uncool)]

My likes sitting out in the snowfall and taking it in. He's a Zen dog. Or just stupid.

[Clarisse]

I'm over winter, too, here in Massachusetts (although we are just getting rained on today) - but hey, it's February and I always feel that way in February.

I'm really just writing to say that your photos are really well done. You give Heather A. a run for her money!

[Sadie at heyMamas]

And right NOW in midtown sitting at the window at work, watching the snow fall. UGGGGH!

Sadie ay heyMamas

[Meredith Elliott]

You should move to Oregon! Because while it is rainy and cloudy quite a bit of the time here, when the sun shines on the hills here in the valley...There's magic in them thar hills! The sun makes up for it EVERY TIME. Also, no snow. Or at least almost no snow. Which I like. A lot. Boo snow. Yay sunshine! You don't know what you're missing!

[Zoë]

We live in Tennessee where it has been unseasonably cold these past few weeks. My 5 year old declared this morning, "I hate cold weather!" I agreed with "I don't like it much myself." Apparently, my sentiments were not strong enough because he followed up with, "Well I HATE it!" Nuff said.

[hi kooky]

Here's how I'm consoling myself about all the gray and snow, etc.: that's a LOT of precipitation, which means that spring will be absolutely stunning, right? All the plants have been well watered (snowed), so when they burst forth, the foliage & color will be extra magnificent? Won't it? That's what I'm pinning my hopes on.

[Alexandra]

Whoohoo! I cannot wait for that book. Your postings are just too few and far between to satisfy my love for you (not whining, just stating...)

Cannot wait...I can then have Alice every night, on the bedside... (Don't get jealous now, Mr. Alice's husband..)

[Rachel]

Same thing way over here out west, too. AWFUL, and as you so appropriately said, UNACCEPTABLE!!

[Natasha]

Ugh. I completely agree Alice. I'm in Brooklyn too and I couldn't believe the SIZE of these snowflakes. Unacceptable.

[S-Way]

I like the Charlie action. More Charlie! Also, what iPhone app are you using to get that effect? I like it.

[Alice Bradley]

Sarah: The Hipstamatic app! It is fantastic. 

[Miss B]

Bah! I will trade you weather right now, lady. It has been not winter at all this year here in the stupid Northwest -- seriously, 50 degrees every day for the past month, it seems like -- and we have had no snow and no actual cold and I am sick of it. It is February; I do not want spring. You can have it all. Can we arrange this somehow?

I am just hoping for a cold and dreary summer to make for this poor attempt at winter. (I hate hot weather. And yes, I am aware that makes me "weird". I'm okay with that.)

[statia]

I am so with you both on this. I'm SO OVER the freaking snow. I want to see leaves on the trees and smell summer.

[Subourbon Wife]

I hear you, sister! We've had snow in the South twice already this year. That's enough to last us a decade or more. I need sunlight!

[Melissa]

Yeah, with you... drowned rat much? Cold drowned rat more? Frizzy cold drowned rat? I could go on forever possibly...

[Jen]

Well, as someone who grew up in the Northeast and has lived in NorCal for the last 18 years or so, I still have fantasies about winter. But then I remember that visiting snow is more fun than dealing with it and the aftermath everyday, and I shut up. I do envy you your beautiful Brooklyn street scene, though--that first picture is lovely.

[Kim]

We're having the same thing in Toronto, just days after it seemed like spring had arrived (oh, last Sunday was GLORIOUS - warm weather, blue skies, dry sidewalks). Charlie is gorgeous as always - is he wearing a Mod Dog collar?

[Aimee Greeblemonkey]

I'm with you.

[Jack]

I don't know if I could live in a place in which it snowed more than once every 50 years.