one of the networks is doing a groundhog day marathom today ... back to back to back to back to ... b a c k

We were just commenting how we haven’t seen it this year. Guess they were saving it all for the big day.

I watched it today and I thought it was one of the best ones yet and yes I like the prognostication.

Every year I say I;m going to get there one year. It looks so great. Maybe if I start planning it now, I can find accomodations for next year. Bucket List.

and you can see Governor Shapiro towards the left.

I knew it already. The daffodils were coming up several weeks ago--in the Northeast. We have "Staten Island Chuck", whose given name is Charles G. Hogg. We used to have a groundhog living in our neighbor's backyard, under a shed. We named him Gunther, but I am not sure he majored in Meteorology in college. He was cute!

Woodstock Willy says spring is on its way, too. I'm still waiting for winter to arrive! (Btw, Woodstock is where the movie was filmed.)

Looks like they had trouble getting Phil out of his tree stump. We have lots of groundhogs around here but I think they are hibernating. Winter usually lasts until mid-April but I see bulbs poking through the ground already. I dont mind inter weather as long as we dont get endless snowstorms.

I'm all for an early Spring, as long as it's not followed by a late Freeze. My pear trees are showing their buds now but they are still in dormancy for the time being...

Our Georgia groundhog, General Beauregard Lee, predicted an early spring.

We are having a warm spell here in the heartland too. I need to clean out last year's growth from my asparagus beds before they wake-up. Garlic is starting to send up new growth as well which is a few weeks earlier than normal.

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I like to monitor my neighbor's helleborus plants to gain hope that winter will slowly fade out.

This has been a mild winter with the second warmest January on record. A horrible portend for summer, my most hated season. Baking sizzling droughts. I'm still waiting for snow and cold weather.

I'm so ready for an early spring!

I will not trust Phil. I will only plant stuff when the dogwoods are blooming on my street. I trust nature to know.

Watching the movie Groundhog Day. I really do appreciate how many times he has to go through things. I learned how to play an instrument, and I know that is not an easy thing to do, accomplish the instrument. So that alone is amazing! Someone once calculated it and they said it was 32 years worth of the same day over and over. I don't know what I would do if I had to keep learning the same lesson everyday for 32 years. I never do learn it, so I guess I would have to do it for a thousand years!

ETA: if it's true, then Phil doesn't get a hot shower for 32 years?!

Oh my gosh, I'm so stupid I'm just now catching his name is Phil like the groundhog. DUH! I don't feel blonde, but I must be

Poor Phil, he has no privacy! I just read that there's a glass window in the local library with a view into his burrow. Raising the question about Phil's marital status...

No groundhogs here. But definite signs of spring. Saw some daffs in bloom today.

Floral, we call them crocus

Dunno, but that looks like callirhoe foliage. I'm pretty temperate, but it's evergreen here.

I didn't make myself clear. Obviously I know my picture shows a crocus! I also saw daffodils but didn't take a photo. The tree is Acacia dealbata which always blooms very early.

Callirhoe does not grow here naturally and I've never seen it in cultivation either. And besides, none of the species has yellow/orange blooms afaik. The lobed foliage is not connected to the Crocus. It's Ranunculus repens, Creeping Buttercup.