Spring is here
NaeNae55
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It is a little overcast and chilly out, but I am ok with that since I know Spring is here at last. All week I have been watching little birdies in the bushes next to my window. Yesterday one of them perched on the windowsill. I am really loving it! Just now I spied a little one with a head full of red feathers. I am sure the rest of his body will soon follow.
YIPPEE!
YIPPEE!
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[SIZE=4]Tell me more about the bodyless bird bird, Nae
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[SIZE=4]I love the edit feature, I can correct my spelling and no one ever nose.[/SIZE]
Now if we could just figure out how to set the default font size.
DH and I went to the movies last night and when we went in, there was a little bit of slush on the ground but all the streets were clear. Three hours later we came out to find 2.5 inches of new snow had fallen, and that had increased to about 4 inches this morning. All of the smart spring birdies in this area are laying low until it looks like we'll actually have some decent weather, and even the crocuses, which are normally blooming all over town by now, haven't started peeking out of the ground. Enough, already!
Sharon
Well, it depends on what part of Alaska you're in. This is such a big state we have very different climates in different areas. I'm in the extreme Southeastern part (much closer to Seattle than Anchorage). This is a "temperate rain forest", and our spring weather usually means temps in the 45-degree range, and we get a LOT of rain (we average 160 inches of rain per year). On a nice spring day like today, it's absolutely beautiful, we have lots of trees, mountains, and ocean around us, but unfortunately on a not-so-nice day you can't see any of the scenery because the clouds are clear down to the water and it's blowing & raining sideways! And unfortunately, you never know quite which kind of a day it's going to be... we joke that the weather forecast mentions a chance of rain almost every day because it's a pretty safe bet!
It's still unseasonably chilly for us right now, it was 29 degrees when we got up this morning which is, I think, far below average for late March. But I'm holding out hope that spring is really on the way, I actually heard a spring bird chirping in the trees outside our bedroom window (and what he was saying was probably something along the lines of "Brrrr...what are we doing out here 29-degree weather?!")
Nae, where is spring now?
Where you live sounds lovely! Liquid sunshine and all. You think of Alaska, and you think Frozen Tundra. I blame the media.
29 isn't bad for a morning low; it has been colder than that here in the last week. And we have extremely hot summers to deal with, where the birds say, "Why the heck aren't we in Alaska?"
You are right, they are threatening a lot of snow around here starting tomorrow night. Tonight our youngest grandsons have their very first ball practice. I am not sure if we will make it as it is cold and windy right now, and it will probably be raining at start time.
Oh well. We are in the midwest after all, so what else can you expect?
Where you live sounds lovely! Liquid sunshine and all. You think of Alaska, and you think Frozen Tundra. I blame the media.
29 isn't bad for a morning low; it has been colder than that here in the last week. And we have extremely hot summers to deal with, where the birds say, "Why the heck aren't we in Alaska?"[/QUOTE]
Yes, it can be quite beautiful here, copious amounts of rain aside. It was kind of stormy earlier today and my husband and I took a drive at lunch time and parked by a beach and watched the waves breaking on the rocks and the seagulls and a couple of bald eagles soaring on the wind currents....even though we were both born and raised here, we never get tired of the scenery we get to enjoy almost every day.
29 degrees may not sound bad for a morning low to you, but it's unusually cold for us for the end of March. More often than not, by this time in March it's not getting any lower than the high 30's at night and certainly isn't freezing (and I hear we're supposed to get up to 2 inches of new snow tonight!) We get spoiled by the "temperate" part of our "temperate rainforest". Granted, while our winters usually aren't very cold, our summers often aren't very warm, either, but that's okay because most of us who have lived here for any period of time start to wilt pretty badly in anything above about 70 degrees anyhow!
No, thank goodness...I'd rather have to deal with a couple of inches of new snow than a couple of inches of ash like they're getting up there!
We're actually the southernmost town in the S.E. Alaska panhandle...if you look at a map of Alaska, we're in the part that extends down alongside Canada, toward Washington. We almost consider ourselves to be a northern extension of Washington, since Seattle is the major city we're closest to.
29 degrees may not sound bad for a morning low to you, but it's unusually cold for us for the end of March. More often than not, by this time in March it's not getting any lower than the high 30's at night and certainly isn't freezing (and I hear we're supposed to get up to 2 inches of new snow tonight!) We get spoiled by the "temperate" part of our "temperate rainforest". Granted, while our winters usually aren't very cold, our summers often aren't very warm, either, but that's okay because most of us who have lived here for any period of time start to wilt pretty badly in anything above about 70 degrees anyhow![/quote]
What a pleasant way to spend your lunch
It is going from the 60's to snow then back to the 70's in Ardmore this weekend! That is great; you will get all the seasons in two days