Well - in my neck of the woods you go from cold (sometimes VERY cold) wet and snowy, or wet and muddy, or wet and flooded, or just plain cold cold cold; with short days, mostly overcast, and cold. Did I mention cold?

then in the spring you get shirtsleeve temperatures, it starts to dry out, you see the sun at least sometimes, the days are longer, it's warm, birds return from migration, farm animals in the fields have their young gamboling (or possibly froliking) with them, it is no longer cold enough to freeze the brass off a monkey, and did I mention it warms up?