CXV-Spring has Sprung

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20 years ago

Last entry: With One Lousy Free Packet of Seeds - Lynne Truss

New one: Eats Shoots and Leaves--Lynne Truss

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deep___roots
20 years ago
Fail Safe ~~ Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler
veer
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Safe House - Nicci French
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Spring has sprung! What is blooming in your yard?
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How pretty everyone's blooms are! My chickasaw plum already finished blooming, and my macadamia tree did as well. Wild ageratum/blue mistflower has been blooming for weeks and I just love the scent. Bees and butterflies appreciate them too. Duranta is flowering a lot now and the butterflies also like that. I have a red ground orchid that's blooming and another purple phalaenopsis is budding. Some walking iris just finished too. My bok choy, wild arugula and some lettuces are bolting as well. Our neighbor has an enormous kapok tree covered with huge red blossoms - a lovely sight, but they will soon become seedpods full of cottony fluff that drifts around like snow and covers everything with filaments, and spreads seeds to sprout everywhere too - not so lovely. No good photos, sadly...
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Has Spring sprung in your area?
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Oh I love all these pics! Oxalis is a favorite house plant for me. We are getting there with spring but it's been a slow start this year, a step forward then a step back over and over again. View from my pillow to the wonky little dogwood at the edge of the woods where nothing has leafed out yet. I call her Nancy - she has branches that form 2 Ys. I'll wait... 🤣 I wasn't fast enough to catch the male cardinal in the branches this morning, though.
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Spring has sprung
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Agree that it has seemed like a relatively cool, dreary spring (until the last couple days), but I think because we got spoiled with an early spring last year we're making the mistake of using that as the standard for comparison. The average temperature at my location for March and April together was actually pretty close to normal (March was a couple degrees above normal and April a couple degrees below normal). And according to the Morton Arboretum's GDD report, as of May 6 their location was actually slightly above normal (91 GDD's, with the historical average being 80 GDD's, base 50). Of course, if you are closer to the lakeshore your GDD's are probably a bit lower than the Morton's. I think this guy that I saw yesterday (5/8/22) would have to be considered confirmation that spring has definitely arrived
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spring has definitely not sprung
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Wow! As usual here in my area we are up and down. Supposed to have a cold few days this weekend, possible frost. I'll be covering up all the blooming plants again. Looking ahead, seems like this might be our last frost. This is our "dogwood winter". My dogwoods are looking so pretty!!
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dynomutt
20 years ago
The House on Garibaldi Street -- Isser Harel
sherwood38
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Tara Road - Maeve Binchy
dido1
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Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
phyllis__mn
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Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
deep___roots
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Rob Roy ~~ Sir Walter Scott

(don't feel like working today, would rather post multiple times here...sorry for the excess)
veer
20 years ago
Roy of the Rovers - James Hart
woodnymph2_gw
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The Deer Slayer - James Fenimore Cooper
sherwood38
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Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles ~ Freddy Silva
veer
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We Plough the Fields - Tristram Beresford
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne
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veer
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A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
dynomutt
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Book of Lies : The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult -- Richard Metzger
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Liars and Saints: A Novel -- Maile Meloy
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The Mismeasure of Man -- Stephen Jay Gould
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Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy
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Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes -- Jane Yolen
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The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
veer
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Three Junes -- Julia Glass
deep___roots
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Twice Told Tales ~~Nathaniel Hawthorne
sherwood38
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Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
mummsie
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Stories From the Vinyl Cafe ~ Stuart McLean
april_bloom
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
dynomutt
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Green Eggs and Ham -- Dr. Seuss
deep___roots
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Green Mansions ~~ WH Hudson
How Green Was My Valley ~~ Richard Llewellyn

(a 2 fer....is that against the rules?)
sherwood38
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Lion In the Valley - Elizabeth Peters
veer
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Into the Valley of Death - Evelyn Hervey
april_bloom
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The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
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Horse Nonsense - W C Sellars and R J Yeatman
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