another shift

not as warm as the sunny afternoon yesterday...it is dead on the "average" high for feburary seventeenth hereabouts...

that's not melt water on the deck reflecting the maple trees...those concentric rings in the center of the photo are from a rain drop...

a tenth of an inch so far with another fifteen hundredths forecast...one may not expect rain in february...here it is...that makes seven and one tenth inches of rain ( let us emphasize that rain...not snow ) since the beginning of the year at a time when snow would be the expected form of precipitation...something may be amiss...