It's white outside again

Category: my Winter thoughts | Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 3:28 pm

Wouldn't you know it? Just yesterday,as the temperature soared to almost 60Â°F, I was commenting on how the snow was finally all melting. I was poking around in the flower beds that still have a protective layer of pine needles on them. It was beginning to feel like spring, just a little bit. The birds are singing their favorite mating songs, tiny green things are sprouting, buds on the shrubs are swelling. But winter isn't going away so easy. I've been back to work (mostly just getting ready) and have had some frozen extremities a couple of early mornings. The wind has been brisk most days, and the skies have been mostly cloudy.
These are the days that really test a gardener's patience! We know spring will come, one glance at the calender assures us.However, Mother Nature sometimes has her own ideas. Last year, March was warm and plants started growing unusually early! It was kind of weird! This year our weather is more typical. We just have to wait.
So after yesterday's warmth, I am watching out my window at the snow flying again. Birds are coming to the feeder for lunch, and I will wait until another day to get out to work in my garden. *sigh*

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Frank wrote on Sun Mar 10, 2013 4:09 pm:

I feel for you Kay. Here's hoping you get your spring started soon!

Cayuga Morning wrote on Sun Mar 10, 2013 4:59 pm:

Kay,

I can so relate! I went out today to look for signs of spring, but after wading through all the snow (12+ inches) all I found was evidence of deer munches! Sigh is right!

glendann wrote on Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:59 pm:

It is cooler today than all last week.Ifit thunders in Febuary.It will frost in April .My moms old saying.

eileen wrote on Sun Mar 10, 2013 6:26 pm:

We've had blizzards here all day. The snow is still coming down. I was hoping to get my plants out of the greenhouse and into the garden too. Maybe next week spring will begin ... or the week after that or ..... oh who knows?

Sjoerd wrote on Sun Mar 10, 2013 11:26 pm:

I know, I know Kay...the same thing has happened here. Snow and freezing weather after three mahvelous spring days.

I'm a bit tiked-off.

williebb123 wrote on Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:08 am:

i know the feeling waiting for the last 3-4in to melt up here on the mtn i think it will be gone this week nice temps movin in sure beats the 4ft we had here at xmas

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