Spring, Glorious Spring

[trysail]

Today is this year's "Crocus Day" (the date I sight the spring's first bloom).

It's almost a month late. What a hellacious winter.


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[trysail]

The forsythia is visibly pregnant but I think it's a false alarm. I doubt if it'll bloom before April arrives.








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[JohnnySavage]

The forsythia is visibly pregnant but I think it's a false alarm. I doubt if it'll bloom before April arrives.








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One of my property lines is marked by an 8' row of forsythia. Another is lined by a row of Azalea bushes that form a hedge about 6' high. In another month it will be something.

 

[trysail]

One of my property lines is marked by an 8' row of forsythia. Another is lined by a row of Azalea bushes that form a hedge about 6' high. In another month it will be something.

Brilliant colors !!



Forsythia- late March or early April
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Azalea- Mid/late May
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[GuiltyPleasure]

It is a great year for forsythia. It seems to bloom really well in a spring following a dry previous summer.

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.608030106767524291&pid=15.1&P=0

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Naturalized Scillas are my favourite, tiny and delicate.

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.607988565841874464&pid=15.1&P=0

 

[quietlylooking]

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn177/quietlylooking65/deck_zpsglqtrvov.jpg

Spring is a bit late where I live.

 

[eyer]

87.8ºF currently @ 1855, and not a cloud in the sky all day today...

...predicted low tonight is 60ºF.

Tomorrow, like Wednesday, charts-out at 86ºF with lows around 60º...

...and nothing but sunshine both days.

Summer has arrived on this Texas plateau upon the Mexican desert.

 

[sufisaint]

I love when the oaks flower....I wish I could post my pictures

 

[sufisaint]

Naturalized Scillas are my favourite, tiny and delicate.

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.607988565841874464&pid=15.1&P=0

Beautiful...

 

[trysail]

Naturalized Scillas are my favourite, tiny and delicate.

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=HN.607988565841874464&pid=15.1&P=0

They ARE gorgeous !!


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[trysail]

27 March

D-day (daffodil day)


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[trysail]

The forsythia wants to bust out.

It's not there, yet, but it is going to explode shortly. Spring's blooms are late this year, pushed back by the hellacious winter.


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[trysail]

This whole goddamn place exploded in the last week. It's like someone detonated a bomb of colours.


There are brilliant shades of blue, pink, yellow, fuschia, green and blue all over the place.


It's a riot of magnolia, cherry blossoms, daffodils, forsythia, jonquils and tulips.



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[thør]

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/lead02/off02_prcp.gif

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/lead02/off02_temp.gif

Looks like it may be wet, here.

 

[Wild_Honey_66]

this is the first place I've lived in over the past fourteen years that hasn't got a pomegranate bush.

 

[trysail]

The magnolia is fading. It has an incredibly powerful scent that is almost intoxicating.
In combination with the fresh mulch the very air around this joint is deeply infused with a delicious funky odor.
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Every year, somewhere around April 15th, I put on a pair of shorts— that's my standard attire for the next six-odd months.


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[chillywilly2]

It snowed here today

 

[Jennifer]

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[chillywilly2]

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sorry...guess I should have posted that over in the playgrounds what made you say fuck today thread

 

[thør]

It snowed here today

I got 3" on the deck rail, yesterday.

 

[chillywilly2]

I got 3" on the deck rail, yesterday.

Lucky you...just a few flakes here..ice should be out to get the boat in and go fishing this weekend..in a snowmobile suit

 

[thør]

Plenty of winter left, here.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDAQ9j5UUAEsGac.jpg

From the plane on Sunday.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I got 3" on the deck rail, yesterday.

Zip up before you go outside!

 

[trysail]

It's "Crocus Day" (the date I sight the spring's first bloom).



There are a ton of snowdrops all over the place. Yesterday, I ran into an enormous din of peepers. I've never heard 'em quite so loud— an outright racket.


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