Is it spring at your house yet?
Not here, that's for sure.
It's 27 degrees here which means my plants don't want to be anywhere near the windows at night.
Sometimes I think I can see them turning away from the cold...or maybe that's one too many flutes of vodka on a Saturday night.
What's the first reliable sign of spring where you are?
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When the snow piles beat a melty retreat from the deck and from around the house's foundation. It's projected to hit 50 here today in WI.
The blooming of crocuses I planted in memory of Mom.
27 degrees? I was briefly shocked but then I realised you meant Fahrenheit. I think 32 is 0 Celsius and freezing point. So brrrr, that is NOT spring there for you.
Daffodils are already blooming here. Crocus is out. I saw the first trees blossoming end of January. And this is not Florida or Southern France but England.
For my taste, spring has been here far too early.
When the alligators start marking their territories and float high in the water to strut their stuff.
When Wegman's begins selling Easter candy and daffodils. They've been selling them for a couple of weeks now at least.
We had Florida winter the past few days, which means I wore jeans instead of shorts and sneakers instead of flip flops. We had to turn on the heat at night. When I headed out to Mass this morning it was 40 degrees but right now it's sunny and 70 so the pups are sun drying on the deck after their baths and I'm back in shorts again.
My azaleas and bougainvillea are in bloom and the amaryllis is about to open.
It's 9 degrees celsius here on the west coast of Canada - I think that's about 48 degrees F.
Daffodils are blooming, the trees are starting to bud and all the robins have come back. Yay - it's spring!!
When I hear the cardinals and robins chirping right outside my window, I like to think that spring is around the corner (even though that's usually January).
When I see the forsythia budding along the highways, I know.
May
When the Wattle's blossomed and drooped and the magpies begin to swoop.
The deer don't like the backyard until the trees have leaves. Their return to the yard is the first sign of spring.
First crocus outside the sun room and then my pond unfreezes and the frogs wake up!
Not for a while yet. 20 something today and windy but things look good for the week coming up. Still good skiing but we feeling too lazy to go.
Here in Southern Ontario we still have plenty of snow. Temperatures last night dipped to 5 F. but climbed to just above freezing today. We're supposed to get some milder weather now.
The cottontail bunnies are getting frisky. My spring oracle is a clump of snowdrops near the old apple tree. It blooms sometime in March -- the 15th is the earliest I've seen them and the 29th the latest.
The ermine (short-tailed weasels) are still snowy white. I had one scampering around the living room last evening. They are the best rodent exterminators around -- always welcome in this old farmhouse.
-10 Celsius here and four inches of fresh snow, with that and inattention leading to my car getting totaled yesterday. That sounds like a big deal until you realize just how little it takes to total a new car. 2020 appears to be following in the footsteps of 2019.
Spring? We have three seasons here: Chinook, winter, and construction.
Yikes, Brenda! I hit a deer a year ago, and boy was that traumatic. (probably for the deer too, even if it did get up and run off) Be kind to yourself.
Spring is springing here in the upper lefthand corner of the US. I'm trying to get the last of the winter gardening done before spring starts raging. Rhododendrons are coming into bloom, and forsythia is just around the corner.
I'm needle felting tiny pandas to keep my stress level down, which also has the added benefit of keeping me off of Twidder quite so much! Janet's blog is one of the few I always read no matter what, even if I am not commenting much.
Here in California, spring has sprung for awhile. Lots of blossoms on trees. In Wine Country, the yellow mustard flowers are in full bloom.
I feel like we have no reliable ways to tell spring here. It was 50-60 degrees a couple of times in January! Some trees budded! I'd say it's when the daffodils bloom, because I guess if they've gotten that far, enough time has passed without wayward snow, but we've also gotten snow in May so....
Spring is here when summer arrives! (not really, it's earlier than that. But I've been hurt before, it's hard to commit)
Yesterday it was 17 and windy and bitter cold. Today it actually climbed to 34, and so Ulrike was able to have a good, mostly not-muddy romp at the dog park with her bestie. Then we went to Tractor Supply, where they do have chicks for sale, so that's something of a spring sign as well.
This time of year is unpredictable in NC, where we have Robert Frost weather:
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.
[from Two Tramps in Mud Time]
Except "April" was last week and "May" the week before and "March" is next week. Temperature variations of 20-30 degrees F from one day to another are not unusual. One day you've thrown open the windows and the next you've turned up the heat and are snuggled under a blanket. The birds are confused, trees blossom and then freeze. Flowers bloom only to be covered with a dusting of snow. The only "reliable" sign of spring is the inconstancy.
It's a wonder anything survives the season. I love it.
The first sign of spring in Paris is always the weeping willow by the Seine on the Square du Vert-Galant. When it starts to turn green, you know spring is in the air.
Bud swells on tree branches even when it's been freezing and in the 20s. It's been a snowy winter in Colorado. When the sixties hit later this week, everything will turn green, but we'll still probably get one more blizzard.
Reliable? That would be when Roger the Rattlesnake comes out of his hole, can't see his shadow, and goes obliviously on his merry way because rattlesnakes don't see their own, pathetic shadow.
Reliable? You funny. We may or may not have a spring (most of the 29 years I have lived here, we haven't). We may or may not have multiple mini-springs with mini-winters between them. Typically, we morph in random roller coaster fashion from "not summer" to "summer". That's been the norm in the past, although the norm appears to be changing. But there's still no reliable indicator.
Hence my references to the Central Texas Weather Coaster.
Ah, Kentucky. My daffodils were blooming in mid-February and it just keeps raining. First sign of spring? Daylight Savings Time.
I went to an outdoor music concert yesterday and people wore short sleeve shirts. That's a good sign.
The return of the robins.
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