Unseasonably warm.  Highs in the 50's.  A saw whet owl has been calling its distinctive "beeping" hoot at night.  I spotted my first robin of the year today.  Sap is flowing from the maple trees.  Water is flowing in the ditches and streams.  Snow has completely melted off the garden.

Jupiter and venus are very close in the western sky.  Despite being 450 million miles apart, during this conjunction the two planets are only three degrees apart (about the distance of two fingers)!  Northern lights continue after a large solar storm spewed electromagnetic energy into space.

Hoping and anticipating for steady spring rains; we installed gutters on the cabin today.