The Rain Before Easter

Winter ends tonight, a little after two in the morning the sun will pass the equator on its way back north. The rain that's falling outside will change from wintertime rain to spring rain, from cold and blue to warm and green. Somewhere so high above the clouds the winter constellations are slipping down below the horizon. Orion is carrying a snow shovel on his shoulder, hanging from his belt is a pouch full of memories of Christmas. Aquarius is carrying the empties from the New Year's party along with his jug of water. Pisces swims the stellar ocean with a Valentines card in his fishy mouth. One by one they slip out of the present, leaving only memories like old photos in a shoe box.

It won't be long before Earth rolls over, and stretches and yawns....