The sun is shining for once, the air is warm-ish, and everything is squishy and smells of mud. Joy of joys!!! 
Bah. It’s supposed to snow here…
Shhhh! Just think happy thoughts…maybe it won’t happen!
Or maybe it will, then I’ll have to stay at my girlfriend’s house tomorrow night instead of driving home 
There’s a happy thought.
Might get six inches of the stuff tonite, here.
Oh, well.
Arrr, it be spring!
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Shoot, I should have planned for Nauroz better.
We woke to snow flurries this morning, but the ground was warm enough to melt it away. I’ve got daffodils blooming but I can’t say it’s warm, just decent with typical March wind. I can’t wait. Spring is my favorite season.
We’ve just finished two days of rain. There’s barely a foot of snow left on the ground. Cloudy and flurries this morning. Supposed to be the same all weekend. Good time to get some work done.
djm
The best thing about spring is it’s starting to be light enough in the evenings to tempt me into doing things. Went for the first run of the year last night, was a bit sore today but it felt good to have done a bit of excercise.
Also started planning lots of cycle routes for weekend fun. After months of darkness, cold and rain it’s great to be thinking about doing things that don’t involve staying inside or taking a scarf and gloves
I saw a robin today, so that’s a sure sign of Spring around these parts. I’m ready. However, I still need to get over the flu, which I have struggled with for the past two weeks.
spring completely wipes if you ask me. all that bothersome twittering in the woods. not cold enough for the winter gear, not warm enough for the summer togs. It’s too friggn light after dinner now. AND I have to start “taking care” of the damn lawn again. now, theres all these people chuntering on about “OH HOW GERAT IT IS..ITS THE RENEWAL OF LIFE, ISNT IT LOVELY” etc., etc., etc… 
.rubbish. give me a month of gloomy, overcast, 40F days. Crime rate ALWAYS soars in spring. I’ll have to buy Mrs ChasR expensive plants that will die by june. Allergies, potholes, pollen, leaky gutters, vermin under the porch, fleas on the dog …grrrr 
…pi$$ off, spring, imho.
Cherish that last foot of snow djm. We got none. 
Oh bleh…go rain on someone else’s thread…this one is supposed to be HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!! 
You have to understand I truly detest the cold and snow (by the way, we still have about 6 inches on the ground too…there are just a few bare spots that squish nicely when I jump around on them 
). The coming of Spring is an awesome thing for me. I LIKE eating my dinner in natural light rather than iridescent. I LIKE watching the grass grow in the back yard (unless, of course, Mr Izz doesn’t mow it and I lose a child or two in there…). I LIKE expensive plants (lol). And since I don’t have allergies, I could care less about the pollen. So despite your less than enthusiastic response, I’ll continue to do my Spring Happy Dance
Obligatory gloat: It was 70F/21C and sunny today. The ice plant in the yard is a riot of purple flowers. The swallows have returned to Capistrano. The lizards have returned to doing push-ups on my patio. Ants are invading the garage. And the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee. Spring!
Yeah, we’re a bit chillier than MT, but most of the oaks have leafed out. The blossoms just started blowing off of the various ornamentals near my office and all the cars are covered in yellow pollen. I have a dry cough that won’t go away and it’s driving me crazy. Musta been the mountain bike ride…
I think we’ll have a decent Easter up at the family ranch (Mendocino Cty) though nippy. Fortunately, my brother-in-law has a kegerator that he stocks with Scrimshaw or Red Tail Ale, so I won’t care. He also builds one of those outdoor firepit fires in case we get too cold. He might barbecue some oysters, too… Little butter, garlic, dash of Tabasco… Lamb for dinner, right off the place, butchered earlier this week…
Ah, now spring I miss.
In south Florida spring means about 8 more weeks until the winds shift, the humidity cranks up and the mosquitos breed like…well…mosquitos.
I did spend this morning sprucing up the butterfly garden. They never leave us. Hey - that’s a positive! Lots of Zebra Longwing catipillars today. The milkweeds are in full bloom as are the pentas. The passionflower is in bud and the lantana is blooming from the recent rain.
Up north we had three thousand daffodils in bloom.
Now that was SPRING!
Spring blessings
pastorkeith
bunch of silly fauns hoppin thru the grass, all o ye!
spring is a pathetic little nusiance-of-a-woos-season jumbled in between the big boys.
No worries: I’ll let you reciprocate when I start my “AUTUMN IS GLORY” thread 
ah.. AH…AH.. CHOO!!! sniff..
Pass the nasonex 
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Spring?
Here is the view from our window at the moment
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Silvano
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