Yes, Spring is Coming

[Magicman]

OK, I know that officially Spring is already here, but things are finally happening, at least here.  The Daffodils have already bloomed out, but other things are just blooming.


 
This Camellia has been blooming for a week


 


 


      
These are all outside my window and there is also a yellow Jasmin that I did not picture.   

Almost all of the trees except Pecan, Hickory, and Walnut have tiny leaves and pollen pods.

[Autocar]

I can't wait for it to get here it was 14 degrees this morning suppose to warm up tomarrow and rain  >:( but thats better then snow like yesturday  ;).

[Andy White]

Lynn,
This post reminds me of something my mother used to tell me. "That is the way the Lord marks his calendar." Sure has a lot more meaning for me now than it did when I was a kid!  Beautiful pictures.    Andy

[Alcranb]

Nice pictures MM. Our daffodils are just starting to peek out. Seeded my tomatoes and peppers today so Spring can't be to far away, right?

[Dave Shepard]

The only color outside my window is a row of Farmall tractors. :D

[thecfarm]

Good one Dave.  ;D  Nothing but white out my window.
Nice pictures Magicman.

[wwsjr]

MM, Like yours, all of ours are blooming. Don't know what the 26° we had this morning will do to the blossoms. I hope the freeze did not get the peach crop this year. Morning lows should be above freezing rest of this week with rain later this week.

[red oaks lumber]

the only thing round here is bloomin idiots :D and they seem to drive

[rhino135]

Spring is coming slow here in Northern Michigan 1inch of new snow this morning.
But I did see a robin last week ( poor bird freezing his $$ off this morning).
Last week cut some trees down for fire wood the snow in the woods was still knee deep.
But spring is on its way,Yea

[justallan1]

At a certain point in the game you start wondering IF spring is going to happen around here, so it's sure nice to see some proof that it's happening somewhere. ;D Thanks for the pictures, Lynn.

Allan

[GDinMaine]

 This is my garden as of last week.  The only difference today, that there is more snow on it. Spring must be stuck in traffic somewhere.



 

[DanG]

I always watch for the pecans to start budding.  Yesterday I noticed that one of them has started.  That particular tree is always the first one, but has never had a single nut on it in the 20 years I've been here.  I guess its sole purpose in life is to make me feel good once a year.  8)

[Magicman]

Yup, theres thems that do's and thems that don'ts.   :D

I have three in the Cabin front yard that only produce and drop limbs.   :-\

[WDH]

Pecan limbs fall.  Profusely. 

:-\ :-\

[Brucer]

We don't even have snowdrops yet :(.

[SwampDonkey]

Yes it is....



I cheated, these came from the Cancer Society at the grocery store. They look pretty sharp in my Wedgewood vase. My uncle would say voz. ;D

[Magicman]

I think cheating is OK if it adds some brightness to your day.   

[Raider Bill]

Pink and green around the hood today.

  

 

[pineywoods]

The dafodills and snowdrops are in full bloom, dogwood and redbud opened yesterday, blueberries are blooming, and the peepers are in full chorus. All that's left is for the pecans to bud out and the pine pollen to start and spring will be here.. About time, I'm out of firewood.

[curdog]

Our daffodils are blooming as well as the redbuds. The trees don't have leaves yet, but it won't be long before the poplars start putting little splashes of green across the hillsides.

[Raider Bill]

I hope I don't miss the dogwood and red bud blooms. They got to hold off 10 days in Tenn.

[Bert]

60's today for the first time this year here. Things are still pretty gray outside though. No signs of life yet.

[thecfarm]

When I see the geese in Lovewell's corn field I will believe you about spring.  ;D

[r.man]

Cfarm if you dig deep enough in the snow I'm sure there is a frozen goose down there somewhere.

[SwampDonkey]

There is a frozen turkey in the bottom of the freezer, all plucked and dressed. ;D

[thecfarm]

Swampdonkey,you been pawing around in my freezer? Some chicken too.

[Alcranb]

 

 

Someone say turkey? The Toms have been shagging the hens something wicked the past few days. Spring can't far off.

[Chuck White]

We saw another sign of Spring here today!

We saw 2 turkey vultures circling over the back field this afternoon!

They don't usually arrive while the ground is still covered with snow!

[sawguy21]

Spring??? What is that?  Sumpin you southerners eat with yer _grits? If it don't warm up and quit raining here I'm gonna put pontoons on the trailer and get outta Dodge.

[Magicman]

Is it not obvious that those that avoid Grits are cold, and those that love them are ................ MMmmm, me thinks that there is a message somewhere.   

[thecfarm]

I will take the glaciered style of weather than face the end to my crusade.

[Magicman]

As long as your Heart is warm Ray, that is good enough for me.  Well, maybe not, but that is for another day.   ;D

[thecfarm]

 ;D

[Bert]

Update! I saw one of those yellow dandelion looking flowers today off the side of the skid road. Not sure what they are called, like dandelions ugly cousin. Anyhow, its a good sign!

[SwampDonkey]

coltsfoot, they push up through the snow. ;D

[Coon]

Spring can't be too far off here.... been seein a few of them nice corn fed and fattened up Canadian Geese.... mmm yummy but can't shoot em this time of year  :-\  That is the closest I ever come to eatin grits is spring goose.....

[gspren]

   Today for the first time this year I don't see any snow in the yard! Of course it's raining and getting muddy but no snow.

[thecfarm]

coltsfoot,Now I know what I dug up for the wife. I've never seen them push up through the snow,but where she has her wild garden is on the dry side too. We drive around and find flowers for her garden. Even has Shunk Cabage in there too. But as I said,the soil is on the dry side.

[SwampDonkey]

Ray, is it the real skunk cabbage or it the Indian helibore that everyone up here calls skunk cabbage? Skunk cabbage has a big yellow pistol with cabbage like leaves around it, bowl shaped. Here in NB we don't have real skunk cabbage, but they do in NS.

Colts foot is usually up quick after the snow goes, within a couple days. I've seen daffodils push up , but with tree leaves between it and the snow.

[thecfarm]

That will be it,Indian hellebore. I knew it as skunk cabbage because that is what my Father always called it. My Grandmother got some goats,My Father was not a goat lover. The goat got into some of that Indian hellebore. First thing that really comes up green and as my Father said,must of never been around it,because the goat ate it.My Father said the goat was leaning up against a post and had the pukes something awful.

[SwampDonkey]

Yes it's poisonous. However, real skunk cabbage the black bears eat in the spring. I used to live in Prince Rupert, BC and this time of year it was up and flowering with that big yellow pistol. They ate that part.

My uncle used to call hellebore that like your father. Couldn't tell'm nothing.  :D  ;)

[thecfarm]

I get a,You can't tell them nothing story. My Father had cancer. I went to pick him up at the hospital. Doctor said he was all set and the nurse said, I'll get a wheelchair. My Father got off the bed and said,I don't need no DanG wheelchair,nice and loud and headed for the door. The nurse looked at me said,He can't do that!!!. I looked at her and said,You tell him that,I have to catch up to him.  ;D  Out the door we went. He was still sputtering when I caught up to him.  ;D

[SwampDonkey]

On the subject of spring, we don't have none. It will probably turn in the 60's when it does warm up and never cool down again until September. Winter to Summer, no other seasons up here. ;D

[Billbob]

I am so excited that spring is here! 8)  Since everyone is showing pictures of their flower gardens I thought I should show mine.  So I just stepped out on the back steps to take a picture of the flower garden by the old barn.  I should break out the rototiller.  But first I have to find the fly dope.  Darn black flies!  They are sure thick today!



 

[gspren]

   Today for the first time this year I don't see any snow in the yard! Of course it's raining and getting muddy but no snow.

  This morning when I posted that it was true  ;D then this afternoon it turned cold and changed to snow and now the ground is white again.  >:( Where is spring?

[Coon]

-15Cand snow here today.... at this rate we will be ice fishing in August.... :D

[Wellmud]

Showed my wife your flowers to ease her winter depression, they are pretty ;)

[Magicman]

Yes, Spring will happen, and with it new life.  I watched the Beech tree outside of my window go from tiny little twists, to full pale green leaves this past week.  The (decorative) Red Maples now have inch long leaves which has happened in just a couple of days.  Maybe I need to take another picture.   ;D

[petefrom bearswamp]

cut some firewood trees saturday with my son.
Snow still knee deep in places in my woods.
Travel 5 or 6 miles south of me and the ground is bare.

[Bert]

The (decorative) Red Maples now have inch long leaves which has happened in just a couple of days.  Maybe I need to take another picture.   ;D

Now your torturing me. I was outside twisting off the little gray "buds" on the hickory trees next to my house to see if there were any leaves inside. Nothing!

[SwampDonkey]

It reached about 38F for a high here, all that did was make slush on the road. Out in the fields and woods it didn't sink none.  ;D

No fire all day, so something must be improving. ;)

[21incher]

This is my only sign of spring so far.


 
My grow light stand is very productive


 
Started GMO free heirloom tomatoes, peppers, & eggplant.


 
Eating lettuce that I started to place outside but the snow never disappeared so I grew it indoors.

[Peter Drouin]

Spring is here, We have mud :D


  

 
I'm so happy  8) 8)
And the water is running the ice is mush


  

 

[SwampDonkey]

Is that medicine they grow up north here? That's GMO free I think. Oh wait, that's tomatoes and lettuce. ;D

Do you have a greenie house? I see the neighbors are starting some plants in the same way. They have two green houses next door.

[21incher]

Is that medicine they grow up north here? That's GMO free I think. Oh wait, that's tomatoes and lettuce. ;D

Do you have a greenie house? I see the neighbors are starting some plants in the same way. They have two green houses next door.

It is the only medicine we can grow around here. I have a old tent shelter I was going to make a greenie house out of this spring, but it will be summer by the time the snow and frost is gone so maybe next year.

[Ken]

What is this spring you speak of?  As of today here are a couple pics of my yard.  No grass or mud yet.

  

 

[SwampDonkey]

Summer has arrived, flies are out.  Told ya it would happen like a switching on a  light bulb. We skip spring up here, go right to summer. Grass is just something to mow, don't need that. ;D 8)

[Alcranb]

Saw an osprey this afternoon. He/she was busy adding to its nest lugging dead branches to it. Herring can't be far behind and then it's the stripers!!  8)

[elk42]

  SPRING HAS ARRIVED 
O yes,  my hickory are blooming before some of my post oak.

[thecfarm]

Brenda spied some Pussy Willows. At 2 diffeant places.

[Den Socling]

Heard peepers last night and saw robins today. It's spring time! 

[Chuck White]

Still to cold and too much snow here for the peeper, but I've seen several Robins and once in a while a small scane of geese heading North!

[SwampDonkey]

No peepers up here for at least a month. The fields are still deep snow, and they melt long before the shaded woods. ;D

Robins are usually here by mid April, snow or not.

[drobertson]

Got our first warm rain this morning, might be my imagination, but the grass looks greener already,

[SPIKER]

Seen the Robins and Buzzards a few weeks back now, yesterday though the Crocuses were up! 8)   G

[Magicman]

The Red Maple has fully leaved out.


 
And the Azaleas are starting to bloom.


 
These are our first Wisteria blooms. 

[thecfarm]

I have a Wisteria. Planted it quite a few years ago. Soil is not the best where I planted it. Last year I watered it alot and fed it at the same time. That really put some growth on. Than the deer came along and helped out on the pruning part of it.  :(  I have it planted between 2 red oaks and I was in hopes that it would climb on the trees and get up into the limbs. With me not paying much attention to it and the deer,I don't think it will ever get there. I will have to build something a round it for a few years.My Father and me had to do that with some of his fruit trees too. After 2-3 years,the trees get some size to them and the deer will leave them alone.

[Magicman]

It is snowing !!!


 
Snowball Tree that is.


 
The clusters are huge.

[SwampDonkey]

Mom bought what she was told was a snowball bush one time. I looked at it and told her she got scammed, it was high bush cranberry that grows wild in the back yard. Sure enough. Has cranberries on it. She didn't care. The waxwings come for the berries in the winter.  ;D

Beautiful snow balls.

[Magicman]

The Pecan trees are leafing out which means that our Spring is officially here.