spring has sprung, the grass has riz...and here are the birdies

[Delightful Life]

i hear that part of the Canadian world is locked in Fimbulwinter, people having to take ice picks to their cars, put mufflers on their children and open carry just in case of a random polar bear encounter?

but this isn't aboot that part of the world

this is aboot Spring

how can i tell Spring is here?

well, i can wear my t's & shorts again during the day

crocusi & daffydill shoots are waking up

sawfly maggots are doing their amazing Cirque de Soleil arabesques on their invisible threads, making walking by trees an exercise in mindfulness

I saw my first Canadian Robin today -- no, it didn't apologize but it obviously was descended from famous Vancouver, BC magician Mandrake the Magnificent -- one moment it was there, the next, poof

don't worry, Fimbulwinter Folks -- you'll get your laughs at our expense soon enough, as the Big One rips through all us saps sipping our Starbucks & Perrier & microbreweries & Elizabeth May revivals & our free range kindergartens, the land rising up and up until the sun is eclipsed...

global warming is so cool its H O T

note: yes, we even have our own 'undead triffids' here -- thank g_oddess they aren't motile, but what else dyacall an invasive plant that has sap that CHANGES YOUR skin GENETICS so that sunlight causes your skin to blister & scar and which the treatment involves getting out of the sun & covering up the affected area...man, g_d has a strange sense of humour...

 

[revjohn]

We routinely have Cardinals, Blue Jays, Juncos, House Finches, Purple Finches Pine Siskins, Chicadees, English Sparrows, House Sparrows and, of course, Starlings. In the Summer we get the Robins, Goldfinches and from time to time an Oriole up from Baltimore.

 

[Delightful Life]

i still love it when i hear a hawk's cry and i can't find it...

then i find a lone starling...

and chuckle...

Chik-a-dee-dee-dee can be quite the earworm for me

(man, those Purple Finches are glam...)

 

[Northwind]

I heard a sparrow here the other day. I'm pretty sure they leave for the winter, so must be back for spring. That's my thought and I'm sticking to it.

We have been enjoying a rather unseasonably warm winter this year. I'd enjoy it more if I weren't afraid we're going to pay for it later, like in June.....

 

[Mendalla]

You West Coasters, always rubbing it in. I keep in touch with the WC member formerly known as Elanorgold and she's been tweeting about your wonderful early spring, too. We are under a perpetual cold weather alert here. My skier is happy but I could use a little spring. Trip to Atlanta is a month away and I hear by a friend on another board that they just got a nasty ice storm so who knows if even that will get me away from winter.

 

[Northwind]

Oh please Mendalla. I don't live on the west coast. I'm in the Peace Region which usually gets the weather you're getting now. Spring is still a long way away. I've met Elanorgold in person and know where she lives. She has equal reason to celebrate, though her part of the province isn't as wintery as mine.

 

[Mendalla]

Oh please Mendalla. I don't live on the west coast. I'm in the Peace Region which usually gets the weather you're getting now. Spring is still a long way away. I've met Elanorgold in person and know where she lives. She has equal reason to celebrate, though her part of the province isn't as wintery as mine.

I typed that earlier when it was just Inanna's original post. And did you know she's in Victoria now?

 

[Northwind]

No, I didn't realize she was in Victoria. Good for her. Too bad I didn't know that. She could have joined somegal, Mo5 and I for a visit.

 

[Delightful Life]

Oh please Mendalla. I don't live on the west coast. I'm in the Peace Region which usually gets the weather you're getting now. Spring is still a long way away. I've met Elanorgold in person and know where she lives. She has equal reason to celebrate, though her part of the province isn't as wintery as mine.

yeah, i'd love to visit that region some time...my dad has been there, back in his med school days when they farm off doctors to all sorts of villages cities and regions for the larnin

 

[Delightful Life]

yuppers, the wet coast is also almost entirely by Smug

anyhew, Elanorgold can be reached at her youtube channel brightphoebus
which is chock full of folk, fairies & light

 

[Ritafee]

Brrr -29 tonight ... Spring can't come soon enough in my neck of the woods ... everything frozen here ... as in water lines ... no running water and no drainage ... glad we have an outhouse and lot's of snow ... funny how fast you get used to wasting water and then again how fast you get used to using it sparingly ...gives me lots to do ... stoking the fire ... gathering snow ... melting snow ... not a real problem ... more like a winter camping adventure... we still have the birds as I have bird feeders and suet out for them ... woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches, blue jays ... also one red squirrel ... lots of rabbits ... and feral cats!

 

[Luce NDs]

And where have all the spare rows gone ... leaving us with a void of one-liners?

There is much weaving and wobbling to do if we can get the diversity into a fabrication that is acceptable to those that like nothing anything different ... and thus at least 85-99% of unprivileged humanity must be wasted as un-thought about! The extensive state of delusion that is reality?

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

My neighbours haven't migrated back from Florida yet- so it can't be spring yet.

 

[BetteTheRed]

It's still dead cold and snow-covered here in Central Ontario. However, there are three big frost heaves that show up every year in front of the high school that I pass on my way to work, and they have heaved, so the soil is warming up.

 

[Northwind]

The potholes are growing here. Surely that's a sign of spring.......I know, I know.....too early.

 

[Mendalla]

It's still dead cold and snow-covered here in Central Ontario. However, there are three big frost heaves that show up every year in front of the high school that I pass on my way to work, and they have heaved, so the soil is warming up.

Wish there was more than soil warming up. Stopped for gas today and my face nearly froze in the time it took to pump 15 L.

 

[Delightful Life]

almost as bad as Bitter Beer Face is(nearly) Frozen Ape Face

you were lucky

 

[BetteTheRed]

I took one of the pooches for a walk down by the lake the other day and got an "ice cream headache" from having a square inch of my forehead uncovered.

 

[Pinga]

Brrrrrr... it's cold.

I can't warm up it seems.
Though I razz my friends out west, I am happy to see the signs of spring out there.

 

[Delightful Life]

yesterday i saw someone i never, ever expected to see

sitting on a blackberry runner, tweeting away

so i sat with per and talked with per and took pictures and some films

i even got per to sit on a twig that i was holding

and when i decided to try to rescue per, per must've got afraid when i tried to put per back and flew away

i thanked per for allowing me to spend some time with per & wished per luck

i found some places that i contacted so that they can put the word out if someone has lost their budgie -- another cool thing aboot the internet