Still February. I know it should feel like we’re through the winter tunnel and heading toward spring. Yet this year, I just feel winterized when I walk around our backyard. Can’t shake it. No matter which direction I turn, the sky and surrounding trees seem to be in state of slumber.

What’s at stake. Not only has this been an old-fashioned winter snow-wise in our part of the world, but we have not come across what we call the February thaw. That means what our plow driver has pushed out of our driveway has stayed there. Piling up. I wanted to put it in the best…

Tucked safely. Please put your pails away from where our plow drivers need to put the snow, asks the email instructions politely sent out by our plowing company. Yes, I can. Best for the plow drivers, the garbage collectors and me. Don’t want an unplowed driveway, knocked over pails or containers left filled for an…

Car be gone. Here’s what happens when the snow comes after our car was parked tucked up against he fence during a bare period. My dear wife Karen took it out to the store and I decided I needed a photo of our winter patterns.

Go ahead, walk on it. I can keep up with the February snow and our path to the front door, and here’s the photo to prove it. Thank you, mail carrier and Amazon delivery people who’ve been trudging through this winter of we’ve-got-a-lot to complete their assignments.

I know what comes after my work-from-home for the library day when it continues to snow. Another turn at cleaning off the car, that’s what.

Yes this is the time of year when I’m thinking about springtime flowers. Go figure.

That is the end of our driveway as February comes to a close this week. Yes, I am glad we have a plow service. And this has been a light winter for us as far as snow goes.