Harbingers of Spring

carter · Feb 11, 2009

Daffodils are in bloom!

Pale Lady · Feb 11, 2009

Pretty! --Do they always bloom this early where you are, or is this early for them?

carter · Feb 11, 2009

This may be a tad early but they usually bloom in February. In a month or so they'll be gone. They're lovely while they're here.

dhermann1 · Feb 11, 2009

Amazingly, I saw a robin in my neighborhood in the Bronx last Saturday. I saw it again yesterday morning. After an exceptionally cold winter, at least a very cold 6 or 7 weeks, the temps seem to be rising a lot, and it will be near 60 today. Very welcome relief indeed. We've had a little bit of snow on the ground continually since mid December, but never a really large amount, in contrast to Boston which has been utterly engulfed.

Foofoogal · Feb 11, 2009

[/IMG]I am sure all my daffodils are in full bloom in my home for sale in Texas.

Lived there for 15 years.
Had gardenias, bluebonnets, easter lilies, red bud trees, huge wisteria.

Thank you for reminding me. I love daffodils. They give hope and look like they are smiling.

carter · Feb 11, 2009

Foofoogal said:
I am sure all my daffodils are in full bloom in my home for sale in Texas.
Lived there for 15 years.
Had gardenias, bluebonnets, easter lilies, red bud trees, huge wisteria.

Ahhh, Paradise. But...Spring in Arkansas is lovely and you have wildlife in your backyard. Soon there will be red, red robins bob, bob, bobbin' along!

Foofoogal · Feb 11, 2009

We already have Robins and Quail and Doves all over. Unless the bad storms blew them away last night.
I am so ready for Spring. I love Spring best right after Fall. I don't do Winter well. Thank you.

BellyTank · Feb 11, 2009

That's a very small home.
Economic crisis, or no- I'm sure you'll sell it.

Foofoogal said:

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carter · Feb 11, 2009

Magnolias are blooming too!

Hemingway Jones · Feb 11, 2009

One sure sign and one only, everything the Red Sox need for spring training was loaded into a truck at Fenway Park and hit the Mass Pike headed south!

Ah! Spring!

imoldfashioned · Feb 12, 2009

I love the photos of the spring flowers. I heard the birds singing this morning, but it is unseasonably warm. I'm not sure they'll stick around.

panamag8or · Feb 12, 2009

The azaleas have already come and gone in my yard. Next up... gardenias.

The Shirt · Feb 12, 2009

From the land of Brrrr - God bless you - I needed that.

Foofoogal · Feb 12, 2009

That's a very small home.
Economic crisis, or no- I'm sure you'll sell it.

Just noticed this funny. This is a church honey built me to cover the well pump or whatever you call it.
I now have city water and hate it. I loved my delicious well water and miss it.
My hair has a mind of its own now. We had a softener on the well.

fftopic:

Marc Chevalier · Feb 12, 2009

Here in L.A., cherry blossoms are saying "Ohaiyo-gozimasu" to us.

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shortbow · Feb 12, 2009

Thanks for the pics. We won't see a daff for two more months.

Mojito · Feb 12, 2009

Thank you for that - I never get tired of seeing daffodils in spring. It's one of the things I miss about the UK.

When I was living there, I sent a photo one year to my father of myself sitting in a field of daffodils. It remains his favourite to this day - he said it took him back fifty years to when he was living in London at about the same age I was. He's never since ceased to remember and dream of springtime and daffodils in England.

Big Man · Feb 12, 2009

carter said:
Daffodils are in bloom!

Ah yes, the Daffodils (we call them "March flowers" here). I always look for them as a sign that Spring is near. The March flowers along the drive started poking their heads above ground a couple weeks ago. I expect to see the first blooms about mid-March.

The flowers along the drive at my place have been there for years and years. I recall my aunt saying that when my grandfather died on 23 March 1932 that they stopped on the way to his funeral to pick the flowers along the drive to put on his casket.

shortbow · Feb 13, 2009

Hey Big Man, I did just that for my Dad, twenty years ago. They've always been bittersweet for me since that day.

kyda · Feb 13, 2009

Those daffodils are stunning, we have a great deal of brown grass and dead gardens over here at the moment. I can't believe that I am going to say this but bring on Fall and the rain.

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