Will this winter never end?

According to the calendar, it's spring. Man, you wouldn't know it by the weather around here. Okay, we did have a partial week where the temps actually rose to 70 degrees, but it was a short-lived little tease and now it's blustery, cold and wet again.

My plum trees and crocus are in bloom, though. And my tulips are up, if not yet open. I heard on the news last night that the tulips fields up in the Skagit , which are a huge tourist draw, are way behind schedule and not yet in bloom like they usually are this time of year. The merchants up there depending on the busloads of people who come to see the flowers must be grinding their teeth to nubs.

One bright spot in my endless winter is my new cover for Bending The Rules. I may have shown this to you all already, and if so, I apologize. But it bears repeating--at least to me. Now, generally I prefer faceless covers because the models never look like the hero or heroine I envisioned when I wrote the book.

But then I got this one. The guy on Rules actually looks like Jase de Sanges. He did even more so in the first version they sent me because my Jase has a prominent nose and so does the model. That 's harder to tell in this version as Art made the cover couple a little larger which hides a greater portion of his face behind my name strip. But he's still the closest I have ever been to art that represents the vision in my head.

Which, okay, has nada to do with the weather. Still, it's my little ray of sunshine. What's the weather like in your neighborhood? Anyone have sun? Heat? Palm trees, maybe?

Inquiring minds wanna know.