Re: Spring
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  • Subject: Re: Spring
  • From: D* <g*@sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:51:26 -0800 (PST)
ha!  We are expecting 6-12 inches of snow starting tomorrow night... spring is
NO where in sight here.....
 
I hope everyone in the snow belt this weekend is OK.... 26-30 inches of snow
is just unreal. (at least for that area of the country)
 
Donna

--- On Sun, 2/7/10, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:


From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Spring
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 3:32 PM


Jim, three weeks ago the quince beside my kitchen window was showing
color in its buds, and I discovered daffs and hellebores up a couple of
inches
under the mulch.  Since then we have had two bouts of extremely cold
weather - single digits at night and low 20s in the day.  Today is very
bright
but with a high of 22 degrees.  I'm afraid those early harbingers have been
lost, or at least haven't progressed any.  What I have noticed in the last
few days, however, is that the male goldfinches are beginning to look
yellow around the neck, and a couple have a few bright feathers on their
shoulders.  That has always been a positive sign of spring to me.
And the days are definitely getting longer.  That's the best sign.
Auralie

In a message dated 2/7/2010 4:15:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
inlandjim1@q.com writes:

It may be a harbinger: Flower buds on the apricot tree are beginning 
to break; flower buds on the cherry trees are swelling up. Weather's 
still crappy, though; overcast, drizzly, persistently chilly.

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