If you look at the calendar, today is February 28th, the last day of the most depressing and awful month of the year. One thing about the seasons is they always come back around on the calendar. A month from now will be March 28th, and a month from there will be April 28th – when the landscape should be greening up and things will definitely be tilting their way towards spring, especially in the city.

Another bright and sunny and supposedly cold day out there. Not like I ever spend much time outdoors when it’s this cold out – as I am one who gets out the bus stop only seconds before the warm pre-heated bus comes past my house. The bus takes me almost directly from my house to work in about 20 minutes – it’s actually faster then driving a car downtown by time you factor in parking – even in the garage near where I work.

When you look at the weather, you see the weather is almost 50 degrees colder today than it was a year ago, when we had one of several warmer winters. This year, we’ve moved into a more typical pattern, a bit a colder one. Weather cycles are incredibly complicated things that man doesn’t fully understand – consisting of solar activity cycles, pressure differentials, and the increased amount of energy we are releasing into the air in the form of carbon dioxide.