After an incredibly mild winter (2 hours of snow and temperatures barely dropping below zero) weather skipped spring and is giving us summer...in March. all the pictures here were taken on March 16,2014.
I've noticed that for the last 3 or 4 years spring seemed to be earlier and earlier...but this year we had several days with temperatures well above 20° mid March. It never happened before, well not since 1830 when people started recording temperatures.
So obviously plants and flowers are early...except from trees which were still pretty bare until a couple of days ago.
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| Do you see the bumblebee? |
Naked trees. It felt so strange to be sitting in the sun in the garden with all those bare trees around. It felt a bit like a summer bubble in the middle of winter. It also reminded me of that Space 1999 episode where Moonbase Alpha got an atmosphere on the Moon for a few hours.
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| Diego doesn't mind the nice weather. |
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| Downside is that weed is growing and it is already time to mow the lawn... |
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| Philibert on a mission... |
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| to poop in the planter... |
Spring is here :) To celebrate I planted an apple tree and a raspberry plant. And I took some pictures of the garden in the first warm sun of the year!
The askew bunny...about the only thing I kept from the junk the previous owners of the house left behind.
Hopefully many raspberries to come!
And the apple tree! Granted it doesn't look very impressive...but even the largest baobab was once a baby tree!
