It’s coming up to the ides of March
In March 2018, it was frigging cold in DC.

It wasn’t cherry blossom season…yet.
The padlet below, which I made that March, two years ago, offers a snapshot. Click here.
But this year, Washington, D.C. is warm in the sunshine. And the ornamental cabbage is blooming fierce and proud.
“Beware the ides of March”: the warning is issued twice in Shakespeare’s play ‘Julius Caesar’. That was in the run-up to March 15, 44 B.C.