Winter or is it Spring?

Here in northern California, we just had some welcome rain; however, we hope for more before Spring blooms fully in April.  While we wait and hope for a little more of that rain, early Spring is showing itself.  As I drive around town this month, the fruit trees are showing their white and pink fragile petals.  The daffodils are giving way to azaleas and the deer, too, hear sounds of the coming Spring near the American River.  During this winter time, I also think back to last autumn's trip to Montana and the horses there were able to roam free near Glacier National Park.  One horse came close to me as if we were having a conversation.  It was one of those moments, I will remember.  Glimpses of wild nature, just like the two deer I saw moving through the brush near the river. Early Spring.