PHOTOS: Spring blooms emerge in Salem

Maybe it’s just me. As I get older, I get more and more impatient for winter to give way to spring and this year, it seemed like winter would slowly morph into summer and skip everything in between.

I can whine about the weather with the best of them, but in spite of my bad attitude, spring did arrive in a big way.

After morning coffee and visit with a good friend, I  drove to…