It might as well be spring (2008) Now 2015

[A Lark Ascending]

Seen some great pictures on this site - Chris' views in NY immediately jump to mind.

So, with the first snowdrops out, how about a visual tracking of this wonderful time of year?



This was the still wintry scene outside my front door at about 8.30 am this morning...less rural than it looks. The sunrise hides an entire small town!

Proof of the snowdrops...I seem to have four!!!!

Edited March 7, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Refreshed the woodstain on front and back doorsteps. You can't have a photo of me doing that, because there isn't one.

MG

[jimi089]

We're not quite there yet in Chicago. Still getting sub-zero temps and snow!

[A Lark Ascending]

Well, spring is but a state of mind!

Actually, I should have subtitled this 'Track the return of life across the northern hemisphere'. Apologies to Kenny Weir and others for my thoughtless hemispherism!

Edited February 12, 2008 by Bev Stapleton

[jimi089]

Well, spring is but a state of mind!

I can certainly dig that.

[A Lark Ascending]

Well, no-one has told the plants yet but the sky is set for spring:

It was warmer today than it was last July during our 'phantom summer.'

[vajerzy]

Crocuses are up and some daffodils are ready to bloom.

My honeybees were bringing in pollen last week when it was in the 70s.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The wind has veered to the north (or is that backed?) this morning. It's dry but bitter - a bit like Margaret Thatcher.

MG

[A Lark Ascending]

You must believe in spring:

The Hodsock Priory snowdrops (and a few daffs) in full flood earlier this afternoon, a few miles up the road.

[Excuse a Brit getting excited by spring - most countries see through this time of year with Carnival, Mardi Gras etc. We get Pancake Day! So a few days glorious weather and the first signs of colour can send us a bit odd!)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The frog in our pond was calling for a frogette all yesterday afternoon and evening. And he's still calling this morning. He must be really randy.

MG

[sidewinder]

Don't have any photos but in the back garden this morning the wrens were making an absolute racket ! Amazing amount of noise for something hardly bigger than a moth.

Badgers turfing up my lawn looking for worms - usually also a sign that the tail-end of Winter is nigh and Spring is round the corner.

[sidewinder]

It's dry but bitter - a bit like Margaret Thatcher.

MG

[jimi089]

There's a whiff of Spring in the air today in Chicago. We should get above freezing, and in the sun snow is melting, forming little rivulets of water that point to warmer days ahead.

It's probably just a tease though.

[A Lark Ascending]

The frog in our pond was calling for a frogette all yesterday afternoon and evening. And he's still calling this morning. He must be really randy.

MG

My two ponds are the scene of a veritable orgy during March each year. Woken up ever morning by very noisy splashing!

Gone all grey and miserable over the last week.

[Tim McG]

Ah-CHOO!!!

[sniff]

I hate Spring.

Grrrr

[A Lark Ascending]

More evidence.

Want to buy some dirty pictures?

[A Lark Ascending]

Four years on.

I declare it spring.

The frogs are back enjoying their hanky panky in the pond.

Someone on the radio said they already had daffodils!!!!

[BillF]

Four years on.

I declare it spring.

The frogs are back enjoying their hanky panky in the pond.

Someone on the radio said they already had daffodils!!!!

Daffodils in my garden for a week - dwarf daffodils, of course,this being Manchester.

[sidewinder]

They are already out down here.

[king ubu]

spring? seems it came and went... next days it's getting cold again, but I've seen several deer right in our lawn last weekend... in the midst of town! and I've loved the warm weather for the last ten days or so (right after we'd been having 10-15 degree minus for long enough that some lakes froze... to the pleasure of the ice-skater and the sausage stands).

[A Lark Ascending]

Well, daffs came out here this week. And:

[Free For All]

Looks like a result of the mild winter is going to be an early and rough spring for allergy sufferers. And lots more mosquitoes.

[A Lark Ascending]

One of those smiley things. Not suffering from such an allergy I can't begin to appreciate how difficult this can be.

Edited March 11, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[Dave James]

For me, Spring begins when I first notice that the local Little League fields are being prepped for play.

[A Lark Ascending]

da-da-da-DA-da-da-DA-da

da-da-da-da-DA-da-da-DA etc

(Crap Stravinsky reference)

Definitely Spring here this week - frogs, daffodils, a few bees, even the grass is growing.

My favourite season.

Try this for a more British view of spring:

'Enter Spring' ebbs and flows between blustery abstraction (Bridge was very much taken with European modernism), sunlit twitterings and a full on 'big tune' processional.

One of my ritual spring pieces, though I've yet to play it as we seem to have jumped from winter to full, warm sunshine. March should be ambiguous with lots of wind and rain and the occasionally sunny spell.

Not that I'm complaining!

(the two other pieces are marvellous too - grandiloquent Edwardian melody in 'The Sea' and a wonderful impressionistic shimmer in 'Summer'.

Edited March 12, 2012 by A Lark Ascending