It's spring, it's spring!

It's truly spring here now. The vultures are back! That's how we really tell it's spring. I saw two of them when we went to the post office. So, with daffodils, apricot trees, bleeding hearts, tulips and pansies, it is truly spring here now. It's been in 70's this past week, now down to 40's and rain for two or three days and then back to 70's. It's spring! It's spring! dooley

 

Congratulations on your vultures, Dooley! Best get that spawn into a bucket and store in the garage, Eileen.

 

Saying it's spring, it's spring is a little like the guy in the bar getting a drink at 10:00 AM, saying "it 4:00 somewhere". I can say it's spring, but if you saw what I see looking out the window here, ---- well, it's spring somewhere.
Tom

 

Isn't the official first day of spring toward the end of this week? The one that they mark on the calendars. Then, we can say winter is over, right? dooley

 

Spring day here is April 14th, also known from old as "moving day", when employees could give in their notice and start to work elsewhere. We've also got a moving day on October 14th, which marks autumn.

 

I'm in the same boat as Tom...still a lot of snow and hard to believe that spring is near. I did, however, see the first Robin's today

 

Its hard to think snow when I was in the yard with a very cool blouse and a pair of shorts and barefoot and was sweathing so bad.It was 90 here at my house.In the greenhouse it was hotter.I have been loving the 70s and 80s but today it was very hot to me.

 

I think our spring starts on Thursday, March 20th . . . (but don't tell everything that is greening up around my place . . . . MUM is the word!!!)

I built a fire last Saturday, and the newspaper I used had a picture of a little boy diving into a public pool. The headline read, "104 Degrees Here Today!" It was dated August 10, 2007. . . no, I can't deal with those hot temps . . . I just hope we are blessed with plenty of rain this year . . . last year was a rough one.

 

Spring, I think, is like beauty, in more ways than I'm suggesting here, it's in the eyes of the beholder. You can write it on a calendar, for everyone to see, but if the calendar is hanging on my wall, March 20th means that the days and nights are the same length here in Wisconsin, and the beauty is in the snowy woods, if your not completely fed up with the snow that is. Especially when the calendar is hanging right next to a window, and most all you see out the window is snow. Or, if the calendar is hanging on Glendann's wall near a window the view is quite different (i've never looked out Glendann's window, so i'm just guessing but I'll bet) it's green things, flowers and trees in leaf, well it's still March 20th, the days are still the same length as the nights, even in Texas, but the weather is starting to do things that the plants like. Our spring is beautiful, as is Glendann's with the green of the new growth in the trees and grass, and the bright colors of the spring flowers, just in a different way. We'll get the green, and bright colors here too, just not on March 20th. But, on March 20th, "it's spring it's spring"------ everywhere.

Tom




There is a calendar hanging there, really