It’s supposed to be spring, right? Sure doesn’t feel like it.

I’ve been trying to cope with all the wintry weather we’ve been having. This has been the worst winter I’ve experienced in the past 25 years. And from what I hear, it doesn’t look good in the years to come thanks to the twin joys of global warming and climate change.

In the meantime, I’m counting down the days until the first green things appear at market. I don’t know about you, but I’m REALLY sick of root vegetables, long-simmered soups and stews.

Clicking on any of the tiles in the mosaic below will bring up a slideshow of high-res photographs.

Roasted carrots, black truffles

Heirloom carrots

Shaved celery salad with cremini and hedgehog mushrooms

Salad greens

Fried chicken liver salad, with arugula and poached egg, and Rancho Gordo beans

Chicken braised with garlic, Meyer lemon and olives; Utica cauliflower

Sun-dried cherry tomatoes from Windfall Farm in Montgomery, NY

Honeycrisp apples

Arugula and radicchio salad, with Bosc pear, blue cheese and cashews

Carrots

Cheese plate: honey, Bosc pear, Middlebury blue cheese

Mesclun salad, Dijon vinaigrette

Turnips

Spaghetti with eggs, cheese and black truffles

Winter salad greens

Poached egg, wild mushrooms, black truffles