Here's another shot from Williamsburg. I will note that the trees had not yet bloomed in Virginia; only the flowers, bushes like the one above and other harbingers of spring. What's more, Ohio may not be as far behind as I thought. When I glanced out my apartment window this morning I noticed one tree along the parking lot's green space periphery that was well along towards blooming, its buds having gone from mahogany to a light russet. The flowering, typically, was the only of its kind among the few dozen trees around the apartment grounds and the thousands behind it in the Metroparks valley. But a coworker who lives thirty miles south reports that his lilacs are well on their way. And cold as it may be, steady rainfall has produced some luminous grasses. So in fact Cleveland has everything it needs from nature but deciduous leaves, blue skies and warm temperatures. Can we haggle for more?