You might not know what you are missing! This winter we’ve had rain, snow, wild waves and wind, but something has seemingly disappeared from our lives.

It looked like something the cat dragged in.

George Eliot, pen name for novelist and poet Mary Anne Evans, captured my feelings when she explained, “Certain winds will make men’s temper bad.”

Curling stones are made of Blue Hone granite, which comes only from the island of Ailsa Craig off the coast of Scotland.

First come, first served. In the case of early bloomers, winter aconite might just be the first to come.

Nothing was truer for February than the proverb “when it rains, it pours.”