I need Spring!!!!

On some blogs from Dutch friends I see the wonderful things that happen in Spring..... Flowers start blooming, grass is becoming more green.... birds building nests..... but here...... No way! All I can show you, is that white stuff, that's here since mid January.... And well, to be honest, I'm getting sick and tired of it! I need to see grass, want to have my morning coffee on the deck, in the sun, want to hear the birds sing their songs outside instead of through the window....But unfortunately, that's not happening yet, temperatures are still below zero, actually, yesterday it was -20 and the windchill made it so cold!! Today it's better, -6 at the moment, at least, that's what the say on the news, but when I was outside taking some pictures, without gloves!!!, it felt a lot colder, had frozen fingers, but hey, who cares! That's winter, and everybody keeps talking about the mild winter we have..... OK well, I don't mind, think it was cold enough last month and that we didn't have snow in November, what seems to be normal here, well, that was fine by me.

Here are some pictures of the front yard...... now you know why I would like to see some green!

Eliane, I tried some different things, with the ISO, but don't know if it turned out ok? Guess so, have to try more I guess!