Is It Spring Yet??

I can hardly believe it's May 7 and it is still barren around here.  Barren and cold.  In my life experience, I have never known spring to be so tardy.  Is it ever going to arrive??
  
We are just barely starting to see the first signs.   A few leaves are starting to appear on the trees.

And a couple plants are popping up out of the ground.

These are certainly welcome signs, but overall it still looks more like winter than spring-- as you can see in the picture below recently taken looking out from our deck.

Seriously.  Is winter ever going to end?  At this point, it looks like it may end in just enough time to start next winter.