Its the first day of spring

It's the first day of spring, but you'd never know it to look out my windows. This one is looking out the patio door on the north side of the house.

And I took these when I went out to shovel the front steps. When the snow slides off the roof it tends to fill up the driveway, so the plough cuts the snowbank back as close to the house as he dares. At least with the Mansard roof we don't have to go up and shovel the snow off the second storey. We never have to worry about the roof collapsing due to the weight of snow as has happened to others in the past couple of weeks.

This snowbank at the front of the house hasn't been touched at all. If it hadn't poured rain at Christmas and late Jan/early Feb it would be a couple of feet higher than it is.