Signs of spring

All happened today. Sitting on the porch this evening, first sound of night frogs. Bats moving around in the dusk. The first swallows arrived about mid day. Flowering fruit trees, hopefully the coming frosts won’t kill most them again this year. Clouds of pollen off the fir trees. Honey and bumble bees.

It got to 64 today and I almost started to sweat since we can’t having that, it was time for the annual spring shave and haircut.

What have you noticed or what are the signs in your area?



Owl

 

I strated hearing frogs at the beginning of the week (wood frogs I think - definitely not peepers). Yesterday my forsythia started to show some good color (not fully in "bloom" yet). Also a couple of narcissus are budding (maybe open up today?)

 

Our excise tax bills came in!

 

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It's been a freak spring but it's coming.

 

Already started cutting the grass last week the trees are starting to show green leaves and the birds are more active

 

What's the blue shack?

 

Oh wait. Generator?

 

Yup, I'm a little bit of a generator hoarder.


That's the medium 6500w unit.

 

Well, we had a day this week where it hit 89*. Way too early to be this warm….Already looking forward to fall

 

Yup, have partially mowed twice here now, almost due for a 3rd...the first one I cut maybe 25% of the yard, the last one more like 75%...might hafta do it all this next time...we have quite a few trees, so lots of the yard is shaded and grows slower.
We've been hearing peepers for maybe 6-8 weeks already, on n off...WAAAY early!

 

All the invasive Norway maples are greening up quickly. Yellow forsythia everywhere, Japanese barberry and autumn olive are both leafing out. The native red maples are full of red buds, black cherry leaves are emerging, and apples/crabapples are pushing out leaves. The buds on my young American chestnuts are about to pop. Dandelions are out, tulips and daffodils are up. Chickens are laying eggs like crazy. We're well on our way.

 

Same here! So many years, my forsythia don't bloom due to freezing winter temps. This year, no below zero temps.

 

That spring has sprung!

 

Heard peepers this past week along with seeing mosquitos and ticks.

However, the temps thge last few days could have fooled anyone into believing it was Feb/Mar

 

Trilliums are out. That's what always tells me it's spring.

 

Hu, mine always bloom (even at my old house), and it used to be common for winter lo's to be in the negative teens for weeks (and day-time temps lucky to be single digits). The one at this house just doesn't usually bloom much just because I'm always hacking a lot of the branches back in the middle of summer to control it as it tried to take over the world. You need to cut them back right after blooming to keep the next year's blooms.

 

There's still snow on the ground there, so maybe it's still right around the corner ......