We looked for more spring things to capture with the new macro lens and with the telephoto lens.  These are what we found:

Another twig of pussywillows, dry this time and with the telephoto lens:

This branch was hanging down above the rushing stream attracting splashes of freezing water droplets:

Tag Alders are starting to “bloom”:

And the Red Maple buds are swelling, about to burst:

Ahh … spring!  (But temporarily delayed by the current cold snap.)

I did hear the sound of a flock of Sandhill Cranes a day ago, and they know that spring is on its way.