This is a view from my front balcony only 8 days ago. It was a brief return of winter that was over the next day. Today, and for the next week, it will be sunny and mid-sixties (21 celsius for all you Europeans). One of those blue doors is my garage space where I keep the car I finally purchased a few weeks ago. It has been nice having that independence again, to go where you want when you need to go. There will still be many occasions when the bus makes more sense due to parking and congestion. In a city of 700,000, where the streets are narrow and few, things can get a bit crowded sometimes (ok, all the time).