Re: Bloom report -- sort of
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- Subject: Re: Bloom report -- sort of
- From: D* &* H* <h*@alaska.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 11:00:46 -0600 (MDT)
Marte Halleck wrote:
> Friday April 10th brought my first blooms of '98 -- a goodly clump of
> Iris reticulata (PAULINE, PURPLE GEM &, I think, HARMONY) were glowing
> in front of a lichen-mottled granite boulder
Marte -
What a beautifu picture that was, I'll bet. I would like to have a
landscaping scheme like this in my front yard.
> Turns out that Friday thru Sunday constituted spring but winter slammed
> back down with a sleetfall Monday & by Thursday we had 2 1/2' of snow
> again. It also snowed Friday night but just a dab. It's not been all
> that cold -- the kind of snow we get at this time of year is really
> spring-rain-that-must-be-shoveled, but boy, am I sick of shoveling!
2-1/2' of snow - that is a HUGE amount of snow! Impressive. Do you
realize that is 30" of snow? (I joke - I know you're painfully aware it
is) Now we know why bears hibernate. I think they must be smarter than
we shovelling species. Oh yes, Marte, I think you have invented a new
word for snow: "spring-rain-that-must-be-shoveled". Very nice word. I'll
remember it.
> So -- I don't know whether this is really a kosher bloom report since
> the white blanket returned but it cheered me to see flowers, if only for
> 3 days. Let's hear it for sunshine & warmer weather!
It is a valid report because you didn't dream it ;-)
> -- at 7,400' altitude
This is your culprit right here.
I feel your pain. (Or is that phrase reserved for politicians?)
Kathy Haggstrom
Anchorage, Alaska/zone 3 (melting fast - dirty patches left)
hagg@alaska.net
