WHICH WAY PHOTOS: ALMOST SPRING EDITION

Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge:

2015 Week #11

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You really would think by now we’d have some flowers to enjoy. The mess is slowly disappearing, but it’s taking its own sweet time. Beneath the mess is more mess. Mud. Ankle-deep mud. I’m not sure if any of our garden survived this time. I guess we’ll see.

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A few flurry flakes, but not serious

It must be nearly spring because Dave, the well guy, called to say as soon as the ground reappears, he will (finally) finish the work on the well. He got the bulk of it done before the blizzards arrived. The final finishing work remains. After he does it, we can lay a new front walk.

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Today is one of March’s “in like a lion” days. The oak trees are swaying like reeds in a breeze. It makes me nervous when huge trees move like that. So far, so good. Nothing has come down, but those are big trees. I didn’t know they could move like that.

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I took some pictures of the woods this morning. As you can see, although there’s still a lot of winter lying around, the stairs are reappearing and the paths through the woods are not as deep in snow.

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Snow isn’t snow anymore. It’s ice. Hard and solid.The melting turned the snowdrifts to mush, then temperatures dropped below freezing, and the mush became ice. Until we get a warm spell — a few days of balmy weather would do it — winter will linger.



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16 replies

  1. On the one hand, almost all of the snow is gone here. On the other, it is supposed to snow Sunday night/Monday morning.

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    • Sorry for you’re weather, but maybe they are wrong? We’re supposed to get less than an inch tomorrow. New York, maybe 4 or 5 inches. Our little storm seems to be coastal. We are inland. Maybe we’ll catch a break this once. It’s been a hard winter.

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  2. Spring will come – in it’s own time, whenever that may be.

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  3. Thanks Marilyn for your submission this week. I’m glad you are finally getting a lot of melting. 🙂

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  4. The dogs will be the true indicators of weather change. Wipe yer muddy paws!

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  5. It definitely looks promising.
    Leslie

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    • Spring is always like this around here. Back and forth, back and forth, cold and not-so-cold. There’s just so much snow to melt this time, it makes the need for some warm weather rather more urgent. But it will happen. So far, it has never failed us.

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  6. You are strong people to endure such a winter. Congratulations!

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    • Thanks! I think it’s the winter that was strong. We are merely patient and most important, retired. We didn’t have jobs we had to get to, so we could (mostly) not go out when it was worst. I sure hope this isn’t a trend in winters to come! February 2015 will live long in memory — not in a good way.

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  7. gives new meaning to the words “black ice”- enough already!

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    • Really! It’s COLD again. Tomorrow is the first day of spring. They are predicting snow on Friday — that would be tomorrow, come to think of it. It’s not supposed to be a big deal, but even a little bit is too much. Time for robins and the first flowers, assuming that ruin of a garden can produce any.

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