A lot of people are complaining about the early week for the start of daylight savings time, but I don’t know, I would prefer to have more daylight in the evening then in the morning. I would rather have some daylight when I get out of work and deal with somewhat darker mornings – although as I am a 9-5 employee, the mornings really aren’t too dark either.

I look forward to having a daylight in the evening to go down to the park and read, although days will have to get a fair bit longer and the snow will have to melt first. But those days can’t be too far away.

Winter is rapidly starting to fade away, even if the mercury isn’t showing it the past few days. The reality is if it’s below 20 degrees all day in March then when we switch to above average temperature it will be in the 50s and 60s, and the snow will rapidly melt away. Usually in the Albany area in the spring, we have weather in the 20s until a high front comes through, and it goes up to the 70s and 80s.

I won’t get my hopes up to high. It may warm up — even be oppressively hot in March or April, but spring really won’t come until late April in the lowest elevations, and not until mid-May in the Adirondacks.