Springtime In...........!

[freemonkey]

The Pacific Northwest!!

I shot these cherry blossoms the other day. What's springing up in your neck of the woods?

[freemonkey]

NM

[ITSOZAZ]

beautiful!

[freemonkey]

trying to add another one, but it won't go. :(

[godfry n. glad]

Temperatures to reach 60ºF+ today in Puddle City.

I'm glad to hear that bloomtime has reached the Great Wet North.

[Julie]

Hey the Pacific Southwest where I am looks identical to that! Go figure!

[Legs]

Want!

[Uthgar the Brazen]

Gorgeous!

[Ymir's blood]

Today the high was 42 (at dawn) and temperatures dropped slightly all day to 30 now. It started raining at 3:00pm.

[LadyShea]

...the Northern Gulf Coast area. The Azaleas are in bloom meaning all you can see is pink as you drive around town...whether in a ditch, in front of a falling down abandoned shack, a business, or grand home. The whole area looks like it snowed Pepto Bismol

[Shelli]

Pretty pics, freemonkey. :=)

It's not very springy here yet, but it's getting there. :twiddle:

[Dingfod]

The forsythia are in full bloom here showing off their bright yellow flowers, the dogwoods, with their white blossoms visible in the still naked forest, and redbuds scattered out through the woods too.

[lisarea]

It was drizzling when I got up. Then, it went all comically springlike for a while, with like cartoon birds and Grieg's Morning Mood, and it was like that for a while.

Then, this happened:

Video of Springtime in the Rockies! - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting (http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/lisarea/?action=view&current=springtime.flv)

I had to edit out the sound because there was a demon screaming on it and I swear it broke my ears, but the wind was all "FWOO! FWOO!" And that stuff you see is some kind of sickassed hail/snow business. That went on for like half an hour or so.

Then, back to blue skies with a couple of fluffy white clouds and about 40F.

[freemonkey]

Yeah, it snowed here this last weekend. It was freaky!

I love azaleas, LS. And the flowering dogwood, Dingfod. Are yours the ones with the big upright blossoms?

And I'm trying to upload this last one again.

Finally! Got that pic to upload.

[ITSOZAZ]

no flowers, but it was a nice crisp evening and we took the Zekester for a walk...

[freemonkey]

he's so cute.

[ITSOZAZ]

awesome colours in that last picture, fm!!

[Julie]

That is one damn cute baby!

We had the unveiling of a Haiku rock at VanDusen Botanical Garden in honour of David C Lam cherry grove today. He is pledging to make Vancouver the Cherry Blossom capital of the western world. He is offering us 10,000 trees which is ~1 million dollars worth to be planted at David Lam park.

Man I love my cherry trees but :( the three out front are all getting old and two are not doing well and we need to take out all 3 trees and replace them. Right now they are ~20 feet tall.

[Pinecone]

I'm still chipping ice and the snow is over my boots. :cryhome:

[godfry n. glad]

Cheeses, Pinecone...Do you speak Inuit? Do your neighbors?

Yeah, we had snow last week. Spring break here was a snow bunny vacation for most college kids. They went to the mountain for the new powder laid down in March.

It's nice today, and they seem to be intimating that the last frost has passed; that it will not plunge below freezing until sometime late next fall. That's heartening, considering it was 29ºF (-2ºC) two nights ago.

I didn't have any tender stuff in the garden yet, so I've done fine with the blustery weather....although I haven't flown a kite yet this year. That's normally associated with March...(must be someplace else, March is a crappy time to fly kites around here).

[ITSOZAZ]

glad you guys like our boy. he turned 10 months old today. here's another cute picture i took...

[LadyShea]

My Iris' all bloomed!
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/8/africanviolet.jpg

And my Kiddo's owl family is letting the baby roam a bit (he calls them his owls anyway)
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/8/owl.jpg

[godfry n. glad]

Whey kewl owl pic, LS.

I see the honeysuckle is in bloom there, too. Nice.

(And...that first pic looks like a Dutch iris, rather than an African violet.)

[Plant Woman]

My signature is what is blooming around my house! Glad the snow is over, I was ready to move back to Hawaii.

[LadyShea]

Whey kewl owl pic, LS.

Our neighbors took that one. The owls nest in their backyard every year.


(And...that first pic looks like a Dutch iris, rather than an African violet.)

I started a thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13098&highlight=flower)here trying to identify those without a picture. A landscaper told me they were African somethings and I said violet for some dumb reason. They're African Iris.

[godfry n. glad]

I started a thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13098&highlight=flower)here trying to identify those without a picture. A landscaper told me they were African somethings and I said violet for some dumb reason. They're African Iris.

Heh...yeah, it seems that there's almost any kind of iris that you can find a geographical distinction for...they're everywhere. They should bloom even better this year.

[Watser?]

Today there were these pink blossoms all over a road, from a tree that I can't identify :duh:

It looked pretty good though

[godfry n. glad]

Today there were these pink blossoms all over a road, from a tree that I can't identify :duh:

It looked pretty good though

Yeah...it's cherry blossom time. That'd be my guess. Ornamental cherries have clumps of pink petaled blossoms that, when they fall, look like a pink snowfall.

The Philosopher's Walk in Kyoto is probably crowded with rubberneckers these days. *sigh*

http://static.flickr.com/51/125645175_ad4871bea6.jpg

The Tidal Pool and the Jefferson Monument in DC is probably gorgeous, as well. *sigh*

http://tourguidemark.com/images/washington/jefferson_cherry_blossoms.jpg

[Plant Woman]

I started a thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13098&highlight=flower)here trying to identify those without a picture. A landscaper told me they were African somethings and I said violet for some dumb reason. They're African Iris.

Heh...yeah, it seems that there's almost any kind of iris that you can find a geographical distinction for...they're everywhere. They should bloom even better this year.

Um I didn't write that godfry, that is Lady Shea you are quoting.

[Watser?]

That last one looks exactly like it godfry :yup:

[godfry n. glad]

I started a thread (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13098&highlight=flower)here trying to identify those without a picture. A landscaper told me they were African somethings and I said violet for some dumb reason. They're African Iris.

Heh...yeah, it seems that there's almost any kind of iris that you can find a geographical distinction for...they're everywhere. They should bloom even better this year.

Um I didn't write that godfry, that is Lady Shea you are quoting.

Sorry, both....my Sometimers gets the better of me.

[Plant Woman]

Better than having CRS like me!

[Ymir's blood]

Spring will never come for these souls...
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/pitshade/0430081540.jpg

Discovered a small cemetery today, completely unexpected.

[godfry n. glad]

Better than having CRS like me!

Oh, I've got that, too.

I've decided that my work ID badge is a valuable tool.

[ITSOZAZ]

great pictures everybody! :)

[Petra]

As I look outside at the fallen leaves and the falling rain, these springs pictures make me feel warm again. Very nice! :)

[freemonkey]

This is one of the first blooms on the first of the rhododendrons to bloom in my yard. In a few days, they should all be blooming!!

:flower::vibes:

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t174/jonezart/rhodie1.jpg

[Pinecone]

That's a beautiful photo freemonkey.

[LadyShea]

Two of the cannas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canna_lily) we planted last year are blooming. No pics yet but they are BRIGHT and showy. We have an orange and a red in bloom.

We have 7 more plants in the ground, next year we might have quite a gaudy display. We planted them around the perimeter of an "island" of yard we left wild (big oak tree plus saplings and grasses), and it looks pretty cool.

[LadyShea]

Well, must be springtime, as the whole county once again looks like it rained Pepto Bismol. Apparently all varieties of azaela are blooming simultaneously

[ChuckF]

It was sprintime yesterday. Tomorrow the high will be 40. :brooding:

[LadyShea]

It was sprintime yesterday. Tomorrow the high will be 40. :brooding:

I had to turn on the AC yesterday, as it was 80 in the house

[SharonDee]

It was in the 80's (F) on Monday and Tuesday. Today it's in the upper 30's and spewing a wintry mix of sleet and ice.

Damned weather. :grumpy:

[Dingfod]

According to our carpentry shop guy building new walls on our control center console it's "snowing like crazy out there."

[Watser?]

Yesterday was sunny :sun: and about 10:degrees:C, today is just as warmish but rainy and grey :rain:

Bleh :gloomy:

[godfry n. glad]

Big hailstorm this week. Two hard frosts in the past week. Today it's clear, blue and bright....but cold and windy. A cold east wind blowing in from down the Gorge. It cuts right through you.

I'd think about breaking out the kites, were it warmer. As it is, I just want inside, where it's warm. Working in the yard in this weather means a sweatshirt and keeping to the back yard, which is buffered from the worst of the east winds by the neighbor's house.

It's been a drier and cooler winter...but for the biggest snow storm I've ever seen in my fifty plus years here.

[Kael]

No spring here yet. We got snowed on again this week.
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/7/6/0/p1010017.jpg (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/showimage.php?i=5920&c=newimages&cutoffdate=2)
Taken Monday or Tuesday.

Still, the snow means my daughter can spend more time on my computer, which she seems happy about.
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/7/6/0/p1010006.jpg (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/showimage.php?i=5919&c=newimages&cutoffdate=2)
Ok, someone tell me how to make them full size?

[Ensign Steve]

Go to the page where the full-size image is, and right-click (PC) or cmd-click (mac) to copy the address using the menu command "copy image address" or "copy image location" or something similar. Then paste that address between img tags in your post. Like this:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/7/6/0/p1010017.jpg

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/7/6/0/p1010006.jpg

She is a doll!

[Qingdai]

Thanks I was wondering how to do that, ES.

[Dingfod]

Before the snow flew, I took these from my yard.

Forsythias are in full bloom.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/3/6/p3240012.jpg

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/3/6/p3240008.jpg

Redbud trees highlight the near nakedness of the forest.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/3/6/p3240009.jpg

But the dogwoods were already past their prime.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/3/6/p3240010.jpg

Still colorful after the snow storm.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/3/6/p3290030.jpg

[Corona688]

I cannot provide pictures because I took apart my sucky sucky camera but suffice to say it hasn't changed all that much. except some of the snow has now been converted into ice due to halfhearted daytime melting. Their solution? Bring out the graters, scrape all the snow off the roads, leaving nothing but the ice. It's a fucking skating rink out there.

[Plant Woman]

Here's a little spring cheer for you!

http://rainysidegardeners.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54fab3ffc883301156e663381970c-800wi

[Plant Woman]

Kael your kid! :squee:

[Qingdai]

Too bad I can't post all the pictures of the flying ants in my house, they are quite aware spring has sprung.
Buy why, oh why, did they have to celebrate in my bathroom?

[Farren]

Winter's on its way here. Hot days still, but increasingly cold, even freezing, nights.

[Dingfod]

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/3/6/p4170008.jpg

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/3/6/p4170013.jpg

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/3/6/p4170004.jpg

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/3/6/p4170006.jpg