It’s that time of year. Spring arrives at 6:21PM CDT this evening. You can watch it come at Archæoastronomy.
The air is already filled with pollen and the live oaks are starting to drop last year’s leaves. The azaleas are going nuts as the camellias begin their decline.
I would note that locally we have had 12 hours or more of daylight since St. Patrick’s Day, and usually do.
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I’m still waiting for the Bradford Pears to bloom which are the first flowering tree/shrub to come out up here on the mountain. They’ve bloomed at the bottom of the mountain, but not up here yet.
We do have some violets popping up! It’s our sign here that winter will actually end some day. But I’m not complaining, we’ve had 2-3 days of upper 60’s here, so the end is in sight!
Yay! It’s been a hell of a winter! I’m glad I didn’t lose a car during all that snow!
The ornamental pear trees that the town planted on the right of way across the street went from twigs to white cotton last week in an explosion and are now showing some green. They are the only real color change we get around here, as they go red in the fall.
You don’t really lose them, OWL, you just have to wait for the snow to melt. I used to have a rubber tip on the end of a broom stick to find my car when I lived in Rochester, NY. I put the rubber tip on after a neighbor got a bit too enthusiastic in his search, and we had to duct tape plastic over the driver’s side window on his car.
You certainly got the snow, so the ground should be good and moist for planting.
We’re celebrating with flood warnings and torrential rain.
But the rain might be enriched with things like iodine-131 or krypton-85, like the snow in Japan, so things could be worse …
You have wonder if anyone is testing the rain on the West Coast?
I’m sure they are testing the rain in CA. They’re just not telling anyone what they find. It would be too frightening.
I still am amazed that the people who are freaking out about radioactivity in Japan have no concern over the toxic dust clouds from China nor question what the US does with the spent “nuke waste” it generates.
Might I add, not the best time to own a convertible.
The best day to own a convertible is the first warm Saturday in Spring, when you are selling it.
Oh, yes, no need to upset people with reality.