Spring?

Is this a sign of spring or is mother nature just messing with me? Yesterday this bee appeared on my back window and sat there all day long. Then Justin's parents have had a Caterpillar crawling around their front porch the last few days. I know that we are supposed to have 6 more weeks of winter (according to ground hog Phil), but bees don't come out in the winter. I don't know about you but I think the ground hog is a very unreliable source for weather forecasts. 1- its a rodent, 2- its kept in a cage, and anything locked up for to long has the tendency to go crazy, 3-it cant be in tune with nature when its not in the wild surviving on its own and finding its own food (by the size of him I have no doubt that he eats better than most the population), 4-Phil is probably scared out of his fur, when he finally gets out of his cage there are hundreds of people staring at him expecting him, a ground hog, to predict the weather, that's a lot to ask of an unstable rodent (personally I'd do anything to be put back in my cage, shadow, no shadow, who gives a crap put me in my cage). I am hoping that spring is sooner that later, I am tired of cold and sickness, I'm tired of being stuck indoors, I'm tired of bundling and unbundling my kids every time I leave the house, and most important I want to wear flip-flops. So I think I'll take the bee as a sign of spring coming and try not think of it as some sci-fi wonder bee that was scouting out a new location for his summer home. Hurry spring!