Changing seasons

It's been a while since I posted anything here, so I figure I'll just do a compare and contrast between winter and spring. Actually, there always seems to be very little middle ground here- we swing back and forth between hot and cold in the spring.

For example, here's the thermometer today, just before noon:


And here's the thermometer about a month ago (note that I did not care to go outside to take the picture!):


Here's a view from March:


And from February:


And here's what the view looked like in early April:


Of course, we are still getting occasional frosts at night. Here are some super-cool ice crystals which appeared overnight on the trunk of my car last week: