March 3 2011 Marietta Georgia USA
For many springs, I would take a train trip somewhere, but in March 2011, I instead flew to Atlanta to see the opera "Porgy and Bess".  On one beautiful spring day (look at that tree in blossom) my wife and I had lunch in Marietta besides the historic tracks.  This was the line where the famous "Great Locomotive Chase" of the American Civil War took place.
No steam locomotives this day.  Only a CSX freight; yet somehow, the whole experience was magical especially since snow still blanketed Ottawa.