HOW YOU KNOW SPRING HAS ARRIVED IN PORTLAND...

Spring is heralded in many ways in different cities in this country: flowers blooming, birds singing, etc. However, in Portland unique signs indicate Spring's arrival. These are a few of my favorite rites of Portland's Spring. 

1) The smell of daphnes in my backyard even before the flowers have bloomed.
2) Ice clinking in everyone's reuseable coffee cups as temperatures become less frigid.
3) Parks filled with kids of all aging playing soccer... without mud puddles and lakes due to a break from the incessant rain.
4) Farmers' markets!
5) Neighbors returning outdoors doing yard work and chatting with each other.
6) Green grass that grows like weeds and that requires near weekly cutting... by our lawn guy. :)
7) Clear views of the mountains on a near-daily basis.



Doesn't it make you want to visit?