A Tropical Pinwheel...

...posted from here in the beautiful desert southwest

for all my friends and family

who are

"wishing and hoping and thinking and praying

planning and dreaming

each night..."

 for the first signs of spring 

"Up North."

(Thanks, Dusty Springfield, Burt Bacharach, and Hal David

 for the words...)

"It's spring fever.

That is what the name of it is.

And when you've got it, you want -

oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want,

but it just fairly makes your heart ache,

 you want it so!"

~Mark Twain