Commuting - Harbingers of spring

I am really beginning to feel like spring is on the way. I walk my dog in the morning and it's not totally dark anymore. If I get off of work after 6, it's not pitch black outside. I nearly creamed a little cottontail on the greenway a few days ago as it hopped across my path. The daffodils are out, some trees are even blooming, and my great big Pin Oak is showing the first signs of budding. I'm looking forward to longer recreational rides in addition to my short commute.

I'm itching for spring. However, our snowiest months are still ahead.
I consider spring to have arrived when the trees start growing leaves and the grass starts turning green. The temps are still wacky here in Denver during spring. I think it is mid april when things start changing here.

This whole winter has been very spring-like here. It's been so mild that we're already starting to see the mosquitos appear. :mad: But I'm definitely looking forward to the longer days!

I am really beginning to feel like spring is on the way. I walk my dog in the morning and it's not totally dark anymore. If I get off of work after 6, it's not pitch black outside. I nearly creamed a little cottontail on the greenway a few days ago as it hopped across my path. The daffodils are out, some trees are even blooming, and my great big Pin Oak is showing the first signs of budding. I'm looking forward to longer recreational rides in addition to my short commute.
Oh yeah, spring has surely arrived in Durham... gonna be a mighty fine weekend for a bike ride!

I am really beginning to feel like spring is on the way. I walk my dog in the morning and it's not totally dark anymore. If I get off of work after 6, it's not pitch black outside. I nearly creamed a little cottontail on the greenway a few days ago as it hopped across my path. The daffodils are out, some trees are even blooming, and my great big Pin Oak is showing the first signs of budding. I'm looking forward to longer recreational rides in addition to my short commute.


Spring is here, here! The jonquils/daffodils have bloomed her, and some of my more tropical outdoor potted plants are starting to leaf out.

The big red hawks (eee-yawwk, eee-yawk, skeeeer!) and little sparrow hawks (Klee-klee-klee-kleek!) are out lookin' for love. Mockingbirds are starting to sing at night occaisionally. Bird flock fights in the bushes.

And that F***ING gopher is starting to really dig again and I can't seem to kill the little SOB.

wind storm and some scattered snow flurries in Boston this afternoon... COLD!

I won't complain too much, as for the 1st time in a long time, our winter has been quite mild. (the last few in a row have been brutal.)

But headed into March, and looking at the forecast for the next week, it doesn't look like Spring is coming quickly enough!

(Dead) spring has been here for a while now. All we need is some rain to bring some life into it. 129 days with no rain (during the spring/winter rainy season). 85F forcast for Sunday.

Al

I commute by greenway in Raleigh, and see the deer all of the time (near the water). Saw three the other night after the rain. It's really funny. They run right alongside you for up to 50 yrds or so. I'm really looking forward to the longer days.

Apparently, thunderstorms are now our primary marker of spring in north texas, as the temps have been unreal for most of the winter. And, the thunderstorms are here - big one rolled through last night and woke me up... Should make for some fun commutes if we have a wet t-storm season. We certainly need the rain, though maybe not as bad as Noisebeam and other AZ folks... I must get those fenders...

Yeah, Ctodd - that was a toad-strangler, the other night.

Harbingers I'm NOT looking forward to are the gajillions of bugs who breed along the Trinity, then stay up all night making bets and drinking tequila shooters just to see how many can fling themselves into my various apertures as I whiz through them in the morning.

Last year, I wound up going with a bandito motif bandana and clear glasses to keep them at bay.

I haven't seen any harbinging yet. Maybe spring is springing under the knee-deep snow? At least the days are a little longer.

It's snowing, and -5C. No spring here! Though it is supposed to go up to 0C on wednesday, whoop-dee-do. I hate winter.

1 degree out in Boston this morning, 6:30am. ONE.

Don't start throwing things at me. :p

This morning: 51F: northern denver suburb
This morning: 35F: Denver

The high= 68F
Shorts weather.

...the gajillions of bugs who breed along the Trinity...

Gosh - hadn't even thought of that. This is my first year as a bike commuter. Half of my ride takes me along Bear Creek through Keller. I bet there's a bunch of bugs there, too. Of course, there's also the 20MPH winds from either the south or the northwest to mark the arrival of spring, too. Would have had to deal with that yesterday, 'cept that a pretty sick kid had my schedule out of whack...

I've been hearing the song birds for the last couple of weeks on the pre-dawn side of my commute. Saw my first robin over the weekend. Spring has sprung in my neck of the woods.

Spring around here starts when the grass turn green and the frogs start chirping -you know late October or early November. Robins? all year long as well as hummingbirds. Spring lasts until the rain stop in April or May and the hillsides turn brown in June. Then summer until October again. Winter? Fall? Well we did have an inch of snow in town january 15th, 2001. It was the heaviest snow my dad had seen there in his 91 years :( .

I didn't have to wear a jacket home the last two days, and I have been smelling thawing earth for the past week and a half or so. Plus, I have seen Robins.

80 degrees today in the middle of Oklahoma. Supposed to be the same for tomorrow. Then it is forecasted to "cool" down to the low 60s, and rain for the next couple of days. We have been having frequent periods where days are in the mid 50s to low 60s since December though. It is scary to think what summer will be like. :eek: I might have to get off of my night-owl schedule so I can ride in the cooler mornings.

It went down to 7 degrees here last night. That's Fahrenheit, you know. The snow is no longer deeper than my BB. It's deeper than my hubs. With drifts over the handlebars. :)

Same old, same old here. 0*F yesterday morning, usually about 15*F most days, 31-40*F in the afternoon.
We have no snow on the ground at all here in the SE corner of the mitten. Weird that you have > 1 foot in the middle, Roody. Does the lake effect reach to you?