Spring is coming, really, right?

-- Updated 3/17 --

Somewhere under there are the crocuses that had begun to emerge from the cold ground outside Birch Street Web headquarters a few days ago. We hope to see them again soon!

About 8-9 inches of various types of frozen precipitation fell in our part of New Jersey during Tuesday's nor'easter.

Meanwhile up in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. --

"This is how my morning started, lol," Mary writes. "It is beautiful though upstate!"

And in Rochester, Rebecca reported on Tuesday afternoon that the snow was "1/2 a Murphy deep" - Murphy her dog, that is. On Wednesday morning she posted a video of Murphy playing in the snow. You can watch it here if you have a Facebook account.

Down in Yonkers, city workers were busy Wednesday clearing away the mounds of plowed-up snow from along McLean Avenue, where Brien has his apartment. "The cops are closing a block at a time and four big and two small shovels dump it into trucks," Brien reported. Why were they being so thorough? McLean is the route of the Yonkers St. Patrick's Day parade, scheduled for Saturday. "Archbishop Dolan is leading the parade this year, so Yonkers wants it to go off without a hitch!"

Also in Yonkers: Kathy sends along this picture of her home: "Cold, but pretty!"