"Spring Is Here?"

This morning I awoke to find Spring played a trick on me. There before my very eyes was all this white stuff!   I thought today was suppose to be the first day of Spring!         "Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!" ~ Wallace Stevens "The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow.  Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.  ~E.B. White, "Hot Weather," One Man's Meat, 1944