This undated archival photograph of a Muskoka lakeside cabin in winter looks pretty eerily just like the view outside right now. By all accounts, Muskoka is just a few flurries short of breaking snowfall records.

In other historic news, on tomorrow’s date, March 13, in 1781, Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus.

As if you could find it in all this snow.

Keep shovelling, and keep smiling. Who knows what wonders remain to be un- or dis-covered?

Spring is coming. Pass it on.