Spring, Glorious Spring

[trysail]

It's coming. I can feel it in the strength of the sun's rays.

There may be cold days and there may be some more snow but...

winter's back is broken.
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Looking out the window, across the valley, silhouetted against a bright blue sky, I see a red-tailed hawk soaring deftly on the wind. A slight movement of its wingtip and it comes into the wind— a kite.

It's light at 1800.

I saw a crocus bloom on the 22nd. The snowdrops will be next.

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Just think of it— four months of longer and longer days, eight months of warmth.

HOT DAMN !!

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[butters]

it was a lovely springlike day today - the bluebells are all clumps of deep green leaves and violas are peeping out along with the wood violets - everything was green and blue and pleasant.

on another note, the arctic freeze is dropping over a whole lot of the states again tomorrow! minnessota(?) i think, has had 49 unbroken days of the sub zeroes, no end in sight.

 

[chillywilly2]

its supposed to be - 30 tomorrow morning...I'm gonna freeze them fucking crocusses

 

[eyer]

The telltale of the formal arrival of spring here on the south side of the Rockies and the north side of the Mexican dessert is simply practical, for my needs:

The first day of the year ground/stored water is naturally warm enough to bathe in outside.

For the 6 Februarys I lived here now, that day has always arrived right around two and a half weeks into the second month...

...for the last two years, the day has been the same: February 17.

 

[Fata Morgana]

God help me, I know this is a touchy subject for some (fuck me rigid ) but when I went to Chatsworth last Friday there were millions of snowdrops everywhere and they looked gorgeous. Such fragile little things.

You know I love the winter and am sad to see it go, but I do like to see spring flowers. There's certainly a stretch in the evenings.

 

[thør]

47°F at home right now. I should be there enjoying the warm sunshine.

 

[neci]

the daffodils are waking up
trumpets blaring

persephone called and said she wouldn't be home.

 

[trysail]

28 February
Lots of snowdrops


3 March
A brilliant red cardinal silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky.
( the birds know, you can hear them )

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[gotsnowgotslush]

Just as the days of old had five days of rain, and two days of sun- We will have our two days of warmth, after five days of cold noses.

That is not Spring. But, it is hopeful.

 

[trysail]

An entire lawn of crocus:

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[FGB]

Yeah,well come mow my yard!

 

[trysail]

The daffodils are well out of the ground and the race is on: which will bloom first?

The daffodils or the forsythia?

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[thør]

Springtime in Alaska

 

[JohnnySavage]

I got the kayak out today and cleaned out all the spider webs. I think I'll go for a float tomorrow.

I have tons of daffys coming up, but the deer will take care of them.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I had promised someone, I think it was Chilly, pics of daffodils when mine bloomed. These pics are better, so i hope he can pretend they are mine. (mine started blooming yesterday)

 

[RedAllan]

Daffs have bloomed, but had rain and hail today.

 

[Magnetron]

Wisconsin is still frozen.

 

[trysail]

First peepers.

My, what a wonderful sound!

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[trysail]

It's D-Day.

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Daffodils - 1
Forsythia = 0




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[eyer]

Spring having fully arrived here more than a month and a half ago...

...the first summer day bloomed today. There have been 90° days this year before today, but this one was the first where the sun was actually sizzling.

Tomorrow gives a high of 92°, Wednesday 93° and Thursday 94°, before cooling down to 84° for Friday.

 

[trysail]

Tomorrow will be the day the forsythia explodes.

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[trysail]

Magnolia Day


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[thør]

Had a nice dusting of snow this morning.

Daylight is over 14 hours, now.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Thursday is supposed to be the peak cherry blossom day, and it's going to be 80. And the Nats play at 4:30

 

[JohnnySavage]