I waited for this

Waited nearly 6 months before our Canadian winter - mild though it is in coastal BC - was suitable for an open sports car. After all, there's not much point in powering the top down if it's raining as it often is during those long winter days. If you did, you'd get wet, although, perhaps surprisingly, only when you slowed right down or stopped, because the natural wind tunnel caused by the passage of the car mostly keeps the water out. But you gotta stop every now & again, so thus, our lovely 350Z stayed in the garage. Until now!
Suddenly our weather turned lovely & warm. It was time!
Down to our local ICBC office we went to renew the insurance & tax sticker, where we were processed by a pretty young woman with very bright green fingernails some 30 mm in length.
And then out on the open road again, & what a delight it was to be able to change gears myself, to judge the moment to stretch out my left leg to depress the clutch pedal, letting up on the throttle at the same time, & then snicking the leather-covered aluminium lever into the selected slot. And then pleasurably being aware of the powerful growl of the "naturally aspirated" - meaning non-turbo - six cylinder engine - one that is rapidly becoming a classic in these days of whiny fours supplemented by a hot & noisy turbocharger.

And although this particular photo was taken last autumn, when the first tinges of nostalgia were prompted by a rapidly weakening sun, our last week was both brighter & warmer than you see here.
We drove down the coast a bit, along windy lanes that were ablaze with flowering trees - dogwood, cherry & apple were everywhere & the ash & maples were already showing leaves in pale green. It was very pretty. We took a ferry over to Salt Spring Island & on our return, down to Duncan to see the lovely Flowering Cherry-lined roads all over town. Sitting in the park by the sadly abandoned E & S Railway line we could smell spring in the air, & see people in shorts & summer dresses, in anticipation of the longer summer days ahead.

The air was warm enough that we could sit on the upper deck of the ferry for the 20 minute ride across to the other island.