It was one of those cat-and-mouse days yesterday with the clouds and the sun and the storms and the sky. It rained a little and the sun shone at lot. The temperature reached 70. People seemed skeptical about the weather and stayed home, so our roads and beaches were winter-empty.

Here's the fire road on our walk yesterday morning, the kind of glistening green that gives you an instant case of spring fever. Everywhere you looked, clingy raindrops.

I tried and tried (and failed and failed) to get the macro lens on my little point-and-shoot to obey me. It had a mind of its own, and so here are the photos it chose to allow me.