Re: Spring
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  • Subject: Re: Spring
  • From: J* B* <j*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:13:01 -0600
My son (in Quantico - Virginia) got 3 feet of snow yesterday.  We are
getting a mixture of snow and rain starting tomorrow.  Bah humbug.


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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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