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This, my dear friends and to all that are looking is what spring apparently looks like in Maine this year. This was taken at 6:30am this morning after a storm dropped 8+ inches on us poor Mainers last night. Spring must have forgotten that it had already sprung! :) Good thing I have my (finally!) completed butterfly socks to keep me warm! What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?
Here's my Springtime ritual! A bike ride downtown to see the Cherry Blossoms! It's here!
And the Cherry Blossom Sky:
Aren't they gorgeous?
Happy Spring!
The first sign of Spring in my yard is definitely finding blossoms on our nectarine tree. I had to trick my camera into taking this one, so we could see it REAL close-up..
Next. . . while tinkering around outside, thinking of things to photograph, I saw something in a new way... can you tell what it is??
why... it's the edge of a Hydrangea leaf. I honestly never realized they were spikey!
I'm slow to do this one. But this is what Atlanta looks like in the spring:
Finally....
Noticed these lil buggers this morning. Not sure what they are since we moved inlast May but I suspect these are tulips. Also looks like someone has been munching on them already.
I didn't think I'd be able to find a sign of spring here that was any different than the muddy driveway (because that's a definite sign of mud season ... er, Spring), but it's been warm(ish) for the last couple of days (highs in the 40s), and we see grass - a definite sign that spring has arrived.
Now, we're going to take our first walk around the neighborhood since October :).
Happy Spring, Everyone!
When you live in an area where the weather is nice most year round, it's often hard to tell when the seasons change other than Target putting out the Valentine's or Christmas decorations but in the area where I live, for a all too brief month or two, the hills all around turn all shades of green. This makes the morning commute a little more tolerable:
From top to bottom we have Ornamental Flax, California Red Poppy and Crocus; all harbingers of Spring in my garden. Hard to believe barely two weeks ago they were all covered with more than 30 inches of snow.
I have no idea what spring is like in New Jersey (in fact I'm a little sad it's spring after being jacked out of winter having been in Texas--I'm SICK of summer weather!)
But I do remember a major sign of spring in Alaska!
In Alaska they don't have a lottery. Instead they bet on things like when ice on the Nenana River is going to melt.
When I was growing up every spring break we would buy our Nenana Ice Classic tickets and make our guesses. Obviously, we never won, but nothing said spring like Ice Classic tickets!
All you have to do is guess the date, hour and minute that the ice on the Nenana River (a small town just a smidge south of Fairbanks) is going to "melt." When it breaks enough, it tips a tripod they set up each winter and it stops the clock it's rigged to.
Of course, you have to make sure you account for earthquakes and such too tripping the tripod early.
The garden gnome has finally made an appearance! Think it's time to get rid of the Christmas ribbons? (Which had new life as Valentine's ribbons.)
Ok, I thought I'd never get to this post! I watched as budding flowers and snow swept landscapes were posted, and hoped for a sign... from spring. And then today happened! Not only is it the glorious new and improved first day of daylight savings time, it is also the day spring sprung!
First, I spotted this in the flower bed.... daffodils to come...
then... a crowd gathered on the bank of the Rock River to behold the ice flow...
Spring has sprung! Yippee!!
There has been no spring in the Alaskan Great North, but it has been super sunny and even though that means cold, it is been wonderful! Yesterday I attended a work retreat at Anchorage's one and only golf course. This is what we saw out the windows though...:)
My husband, Dave, keeps plants all over our house and I think that is what keeps us sane during the long winters here. So even though it is cold and snowy here for months at a time, I am surrounded by green-ness throughout the year. :) He ROCKS!
I opened my blinds this morning to discover a new blanket of snow falling. So pretty to watch but not very spring-y. No signs of spring in central Ohio.
well they didn't tell mother nature to come up here. No you are not reading the temp. wrong...we aren't even supposed to hit 32 until Friday...with the windchill it is -20 degrees today...ahhhh, spring I love spring!
Well don't be surprised if I post to this again in May...yup late April or May is when spring hits here....
Spring flowers blooming are a great sight after a cold winter. The nice thing is that our winter was not bad at all. The yellow daffodils are blooming now too. I'm hoping winter is over.
I' m looking foreword to seeing what everyone posts for the close-up topic.
They have been enjoying Springtime in my pond and this is the product of their "activity"
also in my garden
Daffodils -
Fosythia -
and Rosemary
all in bloom VERY early. Wouldn't expect to see most of these until mid to late March and they've been out for a couple of weeks already. All our news programmes are talking about climate change and global warming and Spring coming earlier.
We've had a very mild, very wet winter here in England and things never really stopped growing but I still love to see that Spring is on the way and I'll be able to get out in my garden planting things soon.
The sign of spring here in San Francisco is when all the trees start to bloom. Every street is lined with pink & white flowers right now.
This is my garden, the neighbor's shed in the background. Those bushes sticking out of the snow behind that birdbath come up to my chest and shoulders. That drift behind them? I think it would swallow me whole without any hesitation.
Spring is coming???
Ahhh.......no.
