We are much ahead of you in Iowa....and also waaay ahead of our usual time table. No moose here, but I see "evidence" of deer being in the yard. I believe I will have daffodills blooming before St Pat's day....very unusual....global warming is real!
I still have the makings of warming pots of winter soup's....and my brain is beginning to feel like burgers on the grill.

Happy pups indeed. We had record highs for days...even hit 80. Doors and windows open. Planted peas! A few new varieties...a purple pod snow pea and a dwarf grey said to be great for salad shoots...along with my usuals.

You may have rain coming your way so enjoy the nice weather. The only disappointment is that we may have missed the maple run. I'll take the early spring over snow any day.

Cherry blossoms have been out in Victoria since the beginning of February. My rhubarb is up over 6" and my chives are up more than a foot. Love spring on the west coast.

Michigan doesn't really have spring, it has about a week of rain, cold and gray, and then it's summer. (grin)

No daffodils or even crocus here, but the pond is about half thawed, I think the rest of the ice will be gone in a day or two. We've hit 60 once, but the temps are hovering in the 40s during the day and still around freezing at night, which is good because that keeps the maple sap running. I did see the first peeks of rhubarb yesterday and my garlic is just showing green heads, so spring is coming, but not as fast as it is other places, I guess.

I won't start planting seeds for a couple more weeks, at least, but I did finally get them all ordered. I also ordered 100 asparagus crowns, just to make sure I don't get bored...

I did see the first geese on the pond, along with several sand hill cranes, we see deer year round, ugh. I have a snowy owl in the barn that I've grown quite fond of and have seen several partridge, but no robins yet and the bears are still in hibernation, apparently.

Annie

Very early spring-like weather here! The crocus nearest the house started blooming a couple days ago and the Egyptian Walking Onions and a couple catnip plants have started to grow.

A snowy owl in the barn!!! How exciting! Envy you, Annie. Will you take pictures?

My apple tree is blooming now, and the hummingbirds seem to like the blossoms, but I think my tree often gets confused about what season it is because it sometimes also blooms in the fall. My epiphyllum have lots of buds now, and they will bloom next month. I have several new ones that have not bloomed for me before. I also have a cilantro plant that started growing in one of the cracks in my patio. I guess I will leave it for now. Some of the dill that I planted is now ready for harvest, and some of the tomato plants are growing well now. I just threw dill and tomato seeds out to see what would happen. I have a lot of new basil leaves on the old stalks from last year and lots of flowers on my hybrid chili plant - the one that I believe is a cross between Habanero and Cayenne. I am always surprised when the old basil plants put out new leaves, but I am very happy to have them, as the new plants from seeds are still quite small. I let basil reseed itself, and goldfinches like to munch on the seeds.

April and May are my favorite months in California, but in Texas, March was my favorite month - by the end of March it was already getting too hot there.

Bernard is here now to help with landscaping, and we took out an old banana tree that never made bananas and I think I want to replace it with a fruiting banana.

I live up in the eastern corner, like the OP.

Signs of spring are definitely here. Such a difference from this time last year!

My SIL taps maples for syrup. The downside of the early warm weather is the sap is no longer running.

We were at our lake place over the weekend This is the stone bridge on our property. Our brook is flowing strong with the snow melt from the mountain behind us and all the ice caps that were there last week have melted.

Well - I woke up this morning to snow/sleet on top of my partly cleaned perennial beds (and everything else). Came home from the shop to dismal cold rain, wood stove out and a cat screeching bloody murder in the woods. After leading the dog and I on a merry chase through sodden underbrush the cat emerged unhurt damp and playful - so I came back with a wet cat wet dog wet shoes wet pants just generally sopping cold wet and grumpy. The cat is happily napping. Ah spring in Maine. OTOH more tomatoes are up - peppers are starting. And it looks like everything in my new (last spring) perennial bed came through the winter.

Its been a beautiful day here, I think up to to 70 degrees. I've had several mini problems hit me the last couple of days that DH would have taken care of in a flash, but they put me in a bad mood. Today I managed to get two of them taken care of. Tomorrow I have to have the Jeep towed about 30 miles away to get a rotted brake line replaced. Replaced the battery today. Also, yesterday I couldn't get the door to the motorhome open so I could get my squeegee out. Took out a little can of WD-40 this morning, sprayed the key on both sides and it only took a couple of tries to get it to unlock. Found a dead mouse in a trap under the RV's bathroom sink, but no squeegee. Disposed of dead mouse. Tomorrow I will try to find where Darrell hid the battery charger so I can charge the battery in the truck.

The tulip trees are blossoming out and they are so pretty. Most of my neighbors' daffodils are in bloom, but my double daffodils haven't gotten there yet. They have lots of buds, but they just haven't opened yet. All the seeds I've started have germinated and are up everywhere from an inch to 3 inches. Looking good for this year.

Have been watching the Weather Channel showing all the dangerous storms and tornado warnings over Illinois. To any Gardenweb friends over there, take care and stay safe. Although they said earlier that my area, about 35+ miles south of Indianapolis, is suppose to be a marginal area where the current storms will hit, I'm prepared.

Madonna, stay safe. Here they are projecting rain and sustained winds of 30 MPH, with gusts up to 50, but no tornadoes, thankfully. As long as the power stays on, we're good, and even if it goes out it isn't so cold that anything would freeze (except me, LOL). Those little repairs and issues just nag at you, don't they? Hugs to you, and good luck with that battery charger!

PWM, I will try, but I doubt he'll stay long, sightings are rare this far south. The DNR says that there have been several sightings, as young owls fly further in search of food, apparently this odd weather has messed up the food supply. So, I've seen him three times, hunting for mice mostly likely, and since I don't have a barn cat at the moment there's an ample supply. Cell phones don't work here so I just have a little trac phone, no camera/phone, and so have never had a camera with me when I've seen him. DNR also told me that because of their unusually remote existence, they don't seem to have the same fear of humans as other owls, so people actually see them. Unfortunately, sometimes they run awry of humans, as they shot 9 of them two years ago at the Grand Rapids airport, about 50 miles south of me. (sigh)

http://michiganradio.org/post/grand-rapids-airport-faces-unprecedented-influx-snowy-owls

My nephew got this picture on his trail cam last fall, just behind the house, definitely not an owl, but a nice big bobcat. I think that's a raccoon he has for lunch...

Annie

And to top off my damp day.. after drying out I headed over to my mom's for a dinner invite. Since my road is pretty awful I decided to walk through the field. All went well until I got to the soft spot - damp even mid summer. I was carefully walking over the 'high' side when suddenly I was shin deep in muck. Left a boot behind and landed in the muck. It was all I could do to pull out the boot by which point the other boot while still on my foot was stuck too. Finally got unstuck and took my dripping self to dinner.

BTW - to bring it back to cooking she made a lovely carbonara pasta dish with turkey, peppers and mushrooms. The pasta box said 'tutti a tavola a mangiare' - which got my mom all misty eyed for Italy.

It has been fun....snow on the way, lol.

Snow up north tomorrow in 'The County' as we call Aroostock county.

Oh, and amck, that's a lovely bridge, I like that a lot.

agmss, that's about what happened to me, I was getting my muck boots sucked off, like walking through quicksand, but it was the barnyard instead, so a fall would have meant cow manure. I luckily managed to maintain my footing, only the pig pen would have been worse. (grin)

And here there is snow projected over the weekend, so we'll see.....

Annie