Brrrrrrr........

The weather outside is frightful, and it’s nearly the end of March!  After one teasingly warm week, New Jersey has been revisited by February weather, and no one is happy about it.  We want to be out in our yards planning our gardens and visiting our spring blooms. We yearn for the warmth of the sun on our faces and limbs.  We hunger for local spring greens and sweet strawberries that haven’t traveled from Chile. Instead, we’re still making soup and wearing turtlenecks.  Sigh.

Okay, now that we’ve complained, let’s take a different tack.  There’s nothing to be done about the weather (we’ll skip the climate change talk today), so simply let it be.  Fighting something like weather will only create stress and negativity in your day, which will make the clouds seem even grayer than they are.  Do something to create loveliness in your surroundings, then take advantage of these last chilly days to do one of those projects you have been putting off, like cleaning out your coat closet.  I mean, how long were you planning to keep those single mittens, anyway? 

So, March is a lemon, weather-wise.  Make lemon cake.