BS: spring has sprung early this year

Subject: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 09:59 AM

The vernal equinox is earlier than usual, so naturally --

the forecast is for tornadoes and blizzards

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 10:02 AM

So has the Vernal Equinox for reasons due to our calander and leap year

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 01:26 PM

So it's our calendar that is farther out of whack than usual rather than the planet. I am comforted.

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 01:46 PM

Life is like music in that it is best when it is not normal.

Last spring the background music for the season sounded like Debussy to me.

This year it feels more like a Russian Army male chorus belting out;

Hope for the best
expect the worst
we had Obama
now its Robert Durst

Life's always fatal
From grave to cradle
You can't always right the wrong

Hope for the best
expect the worst
We had an idea
but bubbles burst

Life's always fatal
From grave to cradle
You can't always right the wrong

Hope for for the best
expect the worst
There's executions
and you're the first

Life's always fatal
From grave to cradle
You can't always right the wrong

Hope for the best
expect the worst
you may be blessed
or devil cursed

Life's always fatal
From grave to cradle
You can't always right the wrong

hope for the best
expect the worst
you got the lead
but you're unrehearsed

Life's always fatal
From grave to cradle
You can't always right the wrong

Hope for the best
expect the worst
You have a Porshe
but its submersed

Life's always fatal
From grave to cradle
You can't always right the wrong

Hope for the best
expect the worst
The dead aroma
could be corona

You are just llke all the rest.

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 10:56 AM

... another rainy day.

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Mar 20 - 04:59 PM

All the world seems in tune
On a Spring afternoon
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park...

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Mar 20 - 09:15 PM

Yes, the Vernal Equinox occurred on March 19. But it occurred very late on March 19. Like at 11:30 PM or thereabouts. If it weren't for being on Daylight Saving Time, it wouldn't have occurred on March 19 at all, but on March 20, the usual first day of Spring for a leap year.

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 22 - 04:25 PM

March in the southern Berkshire mountains of the NE USA:
if you don't care for the weather, wait a few minutes or so.

Thus, the spectacle last week:
the forsythia bushes were a riot of yellow blossoms,
and several inches of snow fell on trees and bushes alike.
The bare trees with the coating of snow were picturesque enough,
but blooming forsythia bushes with piles of snow
heaped on top of the yellow clusters of blossoms
was a real sight to see.

So much so that, outside one office building where I am staying,
a staffperson hurried out the door onto the front step
wearing no coat, and possibly stockinged feet, with her cellphone,
in order to get a photograph of the forsythia with snow on it.
And HER co-worker upstairs looked out the window,
saw this lady standing out in the cold on the front step,
left his office, hurried down the stairs, and said,
what are you DOING, what is the MATTER with you . . .
. . . he couldn't see that she just HAD to have this photograph.
It was amusing.

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Mar 22 - 07:48 AM

I've been sitting outside on The Bench every day for ages in the warm sun. I have quite a nice tan now. My bluebells are in flower, and so are my hyacinths and daffodils, primroses and violets.
My lawn is thick with moss though, so I'll be treating it soon.
All the birds are in mating mode. Pigeons cooing away incessantly, blackbirds flying off to their nestlings with worms in their beaks.
Forsythia is in full glorious bloom. All very uplifting!

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Mar 22 - 09:56 AM

The spring equinox for us is at 3.33pm on Sunday. I get cross when I read things such as "the equinox this year is March 20..." sort of thing. That would have me heading right over to "pet peeves"! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: spring has sprung early this year
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Mar 22 - 12:28 PM

Only spring for half the planet, though!