This blog post has nothing to do with horses or carriages.

Rather, we are here today to discuss the weather. And how much we’re all longing for spring right about now, after a colder-than-normal winter that started earlier than normal.

Here in Lexington, we were spoiled several days ago with a gloriously sunny, warm weekend. It was just enough to get all the snowdrops in our yard to bloom and to trick us into thinking about that early spring we were promised by a certain groundhog.

And so today, of course, it’s been snowing, and the temperature is nearly thirty degrees colder than it was yesterday.

In trying to do my part to encourage spring along, I offer these few photos of a family of robins that set up house under our porch ceiling last year. 

last spring, a robin pair built this nest on our front porch; by mid-May, we could see first one baby bird …

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... then two baby birds ...

 

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... and both parents kept feeding them and feeding them and feeding them

 

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... and feeding them some more, until they were big enough to fly away