Monday, March 7, 2011

Oh No! Not Again!


Aaargh! I've HAD it! This snow is the worst we've had all winter. Not that it was so deep (maybe a foot), but that it was heavy as lead. It was so dense and slippery, even the plows were getting stuck. Anyway, after shoveling out two cars and helping to clear the sidewalks, I'm so tired I don't want to stay outdoors and play today, even though the sky has cleared and the sun is shining brightly. Good! Let it melt all this snow.

For my nature fix today, I went back into my archives and looked at photos of spring flowers. This one of Trailing Arbutus was taken the first week of April. (That's only three weeks from now!)



It made me so happy to think of all these little Bluets just waiting under all this snow for their chance to bloom. It won't be long!


I had such a good time reliving my last spring's adventures, maybe some of my readers would, too. Just click here and be transported back to a lovely spring day on the river. And clicking here will take you up a mountain trail carpeted with violets.
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  1. Carolyn HMarch 7, 2011 at 4:13 PM

    The snow was as heavy as lead down here too. I call them concrete snows. No fun at all.

    Carolyn H.

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  2. asitaMarch 7, 2011 at 5:02 PM

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  3. asitaMarch 7, 2011 at 5:25 PM

    Oh no I'm so sorry. here it is all gone, I thought it would never happen.
    Thanks for the links - we all need that now...

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  4. LouiseMarch 7, 2011 at 5:29 PM

    Wasn't this snow a kick in the teeth? We didn't get in nearly as badly as you did, but it still is a disappointment. Though, I don't know why as we have had bad snowstorms in early April.

    I can't wait until Spring. "My" woods are really, really full of poison ivy, so I have never been able to poke around in them past a certain time. But, this Winter, I bought a pair of tall rubber boots. I figure I can wash them off when I get home, so I don't have to be afraid of walking through the poison ivy this year. I'm so anxious to see what it looks like as Spring advances. It's hard to believe that I've lived in front of these woods for my whole 63 years and never have been back in them past early Spring.

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  5. JuneMarch 7, 2011 at 6:38 PM

    Kind of odd how it got so nice in the afternoon. "Work" snow is so different from "Play" snow, isn't it.

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  6. Ellen RathboneMarch 7, 2011 at 9:07 PM

    Well, at least it wasn't the 30" I heard upstate NY had today on NPR! :)

    Spring is coming, though. We've got our Redwings already, and the cranes are back. Your spring should be on the horizon, too!

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  7. catharusMarch 8, 2011 at 7:30 AM

    Yeh, we had 10" here in State College. But this is March, isn't it? Warm, cold, rain, snow....yo-yo weather!

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