DISMANTLE WHARF

Any signs of spring where you are yet?
Am I asking a cruel insensitive question? Do you live in Texas? Am I basically Ted Cruz?

What are the first signs of spring where you are? What are you most looking forward to doing/seeing? I saw crocuses! Orange ones and purple ones and white ones! The cherry blossom trees will bloom again some day. I believe! I just want it to be warm enough to drink beers and wines in the park with friends. WHAT ELSE IS LIFE FOR?

Pre-Spring is effectively here in Los Angeles (I believe we call this “little green”)—a heavy rainfall a few weeks back woke up the weeds, grasses, and wildflowers. I think I’m about a week out from the first California poppy bloom in my garden, which I will definitely share in this thread when it comes. Also I just planted tomatoes and peas. Let’s goooo abundance! My favorite season.

Oh wait, it got cold again.

today in PDX we are having alternating sun, blue-grey clouds, and torrential rain
it feels springy

I love Portland sprang. The cherry blossoms!

Gonna try and shred some pow tmrw with our very own @marijke, I for one am glad for this year’s hefty snowpack despite all the storms. Ready for it to be light later in the evenings though!

Here she is

BOOM.

SE MI Report

We don't have new leaves, flowers, insects, or green grass yet but I think signs will appear mid-March.

Bunnies woke up. I haven't seen chuckleman (woodchuck) yet. Today was warm, I bet I'll hear frogs soon.

The harbingers are migrating birds!

In 15 or 20 years, all those people will have been peepin' since mid-February. Since I read the recent ProPublica climate change report, I'm trying to envision it in play.

Cherry Blossoms are just starting in Portland.

I expect that the cum trees will start before too long. We'll see, but that's the true mark of spring for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4p0uw42cdo

I'm enjoying starting to have good smells on my walks with the dog. Lots of blooming daphne. It's not my favorite plant to look at but the smell is strong and wonderful. I've found a few edgeworthia to sniff - not many of them around, but they smell daphne-like and are nice to look at. I'm thinking of making a smell map. My favorite is a summer evening walk when you wander into some night-blooming jasmine.

Of course the bulbs are out and about, and sometimes the sun.

Also... never knew it was Linden trees that smelled that way! My sister's namesake.

Oh yeah, our daphne is starting to bloom and it smells great!

I learned about cum trees when it Always smelled cummy outside my 1st LA apartment. I thought it was just the neighborhood! Now I know it is linden!

An interesting note about my poppy above: I took a photo of the same exact flower last year—the first bloom in my garden of the season—and this one reappeared like clockwork, exactly one year and about three days off.

See, this is why phones are good.

WELCOME TO PURPLETOWN

Lupines and tidy tips are starting to say hello, and my beloved ceanothus is in bloom!

Thanks, I love it!

A good chunk of my bike ride to school is lined with cherry blossom trees. A week ago it was cotton candy lane. This week it is a long pink carpet and a pink snowflake wonderland.

The (actual) cherry tree in my neighbor's yard is full of pigeons just chowing hard. I keep telling them (with my mind) that they aren't ready yet! What a waste! You stupid pigeons!

Last week or so in PDX was pink frosting week, and now it's all completely gone. I'm picking up some film today from a flower petal carpet walk and hope I got something really decadent and frothy.

My wildflower bloom this season was almost immediately toasted by a premature heatwave and now our yard looks like shit. Hello future!