Beautiful day Today was a beautiful day. The buds are opening on the trees and before we know it, there will be leaves. It is so wonderful. There are bulbed flowers that are up. They are yellow and some are pink. The yellow ones are daffodils. The pink ones might be tulips. We finally have green grass. I mean 'we' as in us people that live around here. It is so, so beautiful compared to the snow. The snow is beautiful, but nothing (in my thinking) compared to this warmer weather and some little flowers in the grass in the yards. It does bother me that the polar ice caps are melting. Having this nice weather in the middle of March seems to be a sign of more ice melting at the poles and hotter summers to come. There's a little arthropod, an animal related to shrimp, yet called krill, that eats algae under the arctic ice. With less arctic ice, there will be less food for these krill. Other animals eat the krill.