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Amen to that. Michigan is in the same boat. Glad to have warm bike riding weather!

I’ve only driven my car to work twice in the past week :)

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I love spring. The smell of cut grass, especially.

Does anyone else just want to punch these guys a little bit sometimes?

I hear ya. I’m located in Chicago as well and agree that this year’s Winter was horrible. Now that we have these 70 degree days we just need to fire up the grill for lunch on the patio.

Take care!

Man, if I lived in Chicago, I would spend all of my time at Wrigley Field.

I agree – there’s a lake across the road from my apartment. Every evening after work, my wife and I take a walk around the lake – the weather’s nice and seeing everything bloom is great.

For as much as I love living in South Florida, this is something I wish we did have sometimes.

It’s about damn time! This winter sucked here in Chicago…

Is there anything more amazing?

It is amazing how things seems to just fit together so perfectly.

What’s interesting to me is that we look at a painting and know that there was a painter who painted it. We look at a website and it’s obvious that developers/designers created it.

Yet we then look at the beauty of an oak tree or the ridiculous complexity of the human eye and wonder whether there’s a creator behind it all. A random collision of atoms? Come on people!

Yes, yes, yes! I’ve been trimming and digging in the yard.

You shoulda’ seen the Chicago winters in the late 70s. This was nuthin’

Yeah, same in Michigan. All of the sudden it goes from horrible to beautiful outside. I’m going to play some beach volleyball with some friends after work on a lake. Two weeks ago I was wearing a leather coat and gloves.

Sorry to be a downer but that’s what we thought (in Southern Oregon) . . . until last weekend. Having recently moved from Michigan I’ll be surprised if this cold/snow/rain doesn’t work its way across the country.

It’s supposed to warm up again this weekend so hopefully this front is just a speedbump on the way to the real spring season.

In St. Louis we had our Spring awakening about two weeks ago. I agree it is simply amazing and I am always amazed year after year. I don’t know if I could live anywhere without distinct seasons.

The only thing more amazing is when spring happens in late February, rather than late April, as it does here in Austin. =)

I agree with Duff! How can any designer or programmer not see that something as perfect and beautiful as spring (especially this year’s transition in Chicagoland) and not see a Creator. If code could make itself, we would be out of business, but luckily that cannot happen. And neither can nature, and all it’s beauty, be just a random fart of the universe.

Amen for spring in Chicagoland!!!

@Duff & Finley:

Very easy, darlings: read a book about how natural selection works. No one who actually grasps it ever claimed it was “random” or just down to chance, nor a result of farts. To understand a process where all this beauty could happen doesn’t make it any less marvelous or wonderful.

Time to soak up some rays! :D

Is there anything more amazing?

So Jason, you have no children. Have you?

DVDA ?

“When I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first reaction is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant and she fell on top of me. Then it wouldn’t be so funny.”

Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy

We still have two feet of snow up here and in two days it’s supposed to be +18C – can you say flood?

Is there anything more amazing?

Yeah, living in a climate that never gets wretched and miserable.

Yeah, living in a climate that never gets wretched and miserable.

Is there anything more amazing?

Yes. The high on Monday is supposed to be 47°F

Curse you Mother Nature!

I would have been more impressed if this post was written as a haiku.

:-P

Posting from Munich. Spring just happened! Time to spend the afternoon lolling about in the Englischer Garten and drinking beer.

Great post Jason. Though I’m in Texas now, I remember those harsh winters up north – brutal is right. Now that I’m in a much more temperate climate year-round, I find myself missing the changes of the season! Gotta endure the pain to really appreciate the flip-side I suppose.

Oh, and I second Peter’s comment above as well. Having a child is definitely more amazing.

and now its back to fucking cold