Here comes the sun

Spring steps onto the fairways at Indian River Colony Club as a Sandhill crane guides its young across the landscape — a sure sign the season has settled in along Florida’s Space Coast. INDIAN RIVER COLONY CLUB

Let’s be honest. There are very few of us who, at one time or another, did not boast to our friends and family in northern climes about how benign our winter weather always proved to be.

We were not boasting a few weeks ago.

It was our Northern friends’ and families’ well-earned turn to crow, gleefully alerting us to the fact that Alaska was actually warmer than Miami at the beginning of this year.