Contrasts, Cold, Sunflare, and Yellow Tulips

What a title. Anyways, it's been cold.

The windows look like this:

And the house looks like this:

Inside, however, it looks like this:

Sometimes, it's worth $5.50 for yellow tulips to cheer one's FREEZING COLD day.

Can you believe there has been enough sun for sunflare?

There was a heat wave today, and it actually made it into the twenties! Remember how it stays light until 9 o'clock in the summer, and you can run outside with barefeet and see grass and dirt and the wind doesn't hurt your face? Sometimes I forget what that's like. But it's coming. And in July, when I'm hot and bothered, I will remember the stillness of January nights and how much I love to see my breath, and how cozy the fire is when the snow is falling and I have no where to go. I enjoy everything better when I see it in contrast.

But spring could come now. I wouldn't mind.