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Posted 2/22/2015 7:06 AM (GMT 0)
We are experiencing spring symptoms here in Northern CA and it's not yet March, but it is my favorite time of year. What I look forward to the most...wild flowers, the big dipper reappears (when we're sitting in the hot tub) and most of all Spring Training... yeah!
For me, it also marks the passage of another winter and hope for new (and continued) life.
What are your favorite signs if spring?
yeah
Posted 2/22/2015 7:23 AM (GMT 0)
We have 2 inches of ice forecast for Monday. No spring in the great Southwest yet. Maybe Thursday.
Posted 2/22/2015 12:07 PM (GMT 0)
Still in the deep freeze here. But, 2 weeks ago we had a thaw and the maple trees started to bud, and the daffodils started to poke up. Under a considerable amount of snow now.
Posted 2/22/2015 12:10 PM (GMT 0)
142, seriously? 2 INCHES of ice? Holy moley.... that would be devastating anywhere.

Good luck, stay safe.
Posted 2/22/2015 12:17 PM (GMT 0)
Last week was the coldest week this winter here in GA. But now we should see some early spring-like days. I see those red buds on Maple trees now. Yes, spring brings us hope after the dark cold winter days end. My favorite has to be the Dogwood bloom. But winter is not over here until " the pecan leaves are the size of a squirrel's ear". nono
Posted 2/22/2015 12:29 PM (GMT 0)
My favorite sign of spring? When the Robins come back. I'll know it's really spring when I see the tractors out in the fields. And yes, when the redbuds and dogwoods are blooming (and my sinuses confirm it), it's spring.
Posted 2/22/2015 1:48 PM (GMT 0)
Not my favourite sign but the most predictable. When the Toronto Maple Leafs fail to make the playoffs is a good indicator spring is around the corner.

Cheers, Doug
Posted 2/22/2015 2:00 PM (GMT 0)
Doug, my sympathies. For lots of folks around here, fall is when the Cubs collapse.
Posted 2/22/2015 2:14 PM (GMT 0)
Pitchers and Cachers have reported to spring training
Posted 2/22/2015 2:41 PM (GMT 0)
Here in Southern California, it's the wildflowers that do it for me. And our peach and plum trees have also just started to flower, which is very nice. Oh, and the roses are just starting also.

While I appreciate the signs of spring, given our drought I'd much rather have a few more months of winter so we get some more rain! (It is supposed to rain tonight though! Just in time for the Academy Awards...)
Posted 2/22/2015 2:44 PM (GMT 0)
When the snow shovels go back into the shed and the wife starts making a "to do" list for the outside...that's my first sign of spring.
Posted 2/22/2015 3:22 PM (GMT 0)
The beginning of spring here means the beginning of Fall down under. There storms generates big and energetic swells in which to play. Its already begun and will only get better as their winter…our summer approaches.
Posted 2/22/2015 4:09 PM (GMT 0)
Here in north Florida it has to be when the last cold snap happens, and I think we just recently had that one. (South Florida is usually warm year round). Hopefully it will be sunny and warm starting now and stay that way until the fall. Here in Gainesville today it should be in the low 70's and partly cloudy.
Posted 2/22/2015 4:41 PM (GMT 0)
My favorite sign of spring in NorCal:

People buying iced drinks at Starbucks. :)

but don't know if you can call it spring if we never had winter...

Andrew
Posted 2/22/2015 6:28 PM (GMT 0)
A thread on spring when it's -4 with a -35 degree wind chill where I live?? Sadists!!
shocked

Tom
Posted 2/22/2015 6:31 PM (GMT 0)
tongue
Posted 2/22/2015 6:44 PM (GMT 0)
Without doubt seeing Daffodils come into flower.

After that everything else starts to come into bud. But Daffodils are the first. Do you have them over that side of the pond?
Posted 2/22/2015 6:55 PM (GMT 0)
Our daffodils and crocus are starting to bloom here on this side of the pond, yes. You all back east stay safe til your spring finally comes your way and melts those mountains of snow. Wish we could have gotten a little of that precipitation. Not as bad as last year drought but the effects are cumulous.
Posted 2/22/2015 6:57 PM (GMT 0)
caspar555, a week ago we had a week of thaw, and the daffs started poking up an inch or so, now they are under a quantity of snow.
Posted 2/23/2015 1:23 AM (GMT 0)
La Conner, northern washington state, followed quickly by rows and rows of tulips
Posted 2/23/2015 1:01 PM (GMT 0)

halbert said...
caspar555, a week ago we had a week of thaw, and the daffs started poking up an inch or so, now they are under a quantity of snow.


We have had the same thing happen here in the past, but they still find a way of gowning up through the snow and look even more amazing against the white backdrop.
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