BS: Spring Firsts

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Raptor
Date: 18 May 04 - 09:33 AM

This tread is good threapy keep the posts comming folks(even police chases). But it would be helpfull to know where you are in relation to the climate zones when reporting blooms!

Raptor(in Ontario)

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Sooz
Date: 17 May 04 - 02:00 PM

I've just walked round my garden and counted twenty eight different species in flower - and I didn't cheat and count the weeds! There's a lot to be said for boring flat Lincolnshire.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 May 04 - 12:22 PM

Hey, isn't failure to yield to an emergency vehicle a crime? Get her license number and give her a REAL thrill -- a court appearance!

We're headed into our fifth year of drought. Water emergencies will probably be declared this summer.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: RangerSteve
Date: 17 May 04 - 10:36 AM

Every day there seems to be a new flower blooming in the front yard. The irises are getting ready to open. I saw my first goldfinch of the year two days ago, and a box turtle a day before that. Two of my neighbors buffalo just gave birth. (There's darned few people in New Jersey that can make a statement like that).
On the unfortunate side, we had our first car break-in and theft the other day. About this time of year, with the State Parks getting crowded, people come over from Pennsylvania to parks located near interstate routes looking for cars with valuables left on the front seats. The interstates make for a fast getaway. We identified the suspect, at least. I was almost involved in the first high-speed chase of my career, but some dumb yuppie got in between us, and she was on her GOD-DAMNED CELL PHONE AND COULDN'T BE BOTHERED NOTICING MY LIGHTS AND SIRENS BECAUSE SHE WAS ON HER GOD-DAMNED CELL PHONE AND WHEN A YUPPIE IS ON HER GOD-DAMNED CELL PHONE, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS, SO I LOST THE GUY, but I got the guys license plate number. This stuff will be going on all summer.
Sorry about that rant, I needed to vent my anger somewhere.
RangerSteve, lover of nature, enemy of all yuppies.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 17 May 04 - 08:40 AM

the first bud on the peonies is showing colour.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 May 04 - 04:10 AM

I found a crocus last week, the first time I've had one bloom in May - usually they are all done by March.

I sat in my garden this weekend for the first time this year - just sunning and contemplating. It was wonderful!

We went for our first picnic yesterday (Sunday) and it was glorious. On the way home I realised for the first time in 7 years, that you can see our service tree from over the top of the granny flat on the corner.

I might even spend today pottering around in the garden tidying up, now the bicycles have been removed, I have space to manouevre the compost around.

My garden has 15 or more different flowers in bloom, there is a clear blue sky and I'm in need of some therapy. Happy gardening folks!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: CarolC
Date: 17 May 04 - 01:08 AM

I just discovered for the first time that a squirrel is eating our strawberries.

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Mudlark
Date: 17 May 04 - 12:26 AM

Very nice to get vicarious spring vibes...here on the central coast of Calif. where drought looms large, we were hit by early, prolonged record-breaking highs of 100+ in late April/early May, which put paid to the always too short spring we usually enjoy. Except in rare, sheltered places, the wild grasses have all gone to seed, the few spring flowers that bloomed were burned to a crisp, including my ranunculas and all the wild larkspur and lupine. Right at the coast the poppies are still blooming, at least. It's so hot and dry I've decided to do a miniumum of gardening and concentrate instead on potted plants/flowers for the porch. I'm starting out with gloriously exhuberant geraniums, the big, fat old-fashioned kind, that seem to take the heat better than most. I look forward to reading more about "real" spring elsewhere...

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: pdq
Date: 16 May 04 - 09:09 PM

Good news, though. The cold weather will have no affect on the viability of the golf balls!

(also in high desert - Nevada)

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 May 04 - 08:55 PM

I have now collected over ten (10) very good golf balls from my back yard. Also, I've harvested about 4 pounds of good aspargus, have lilacs blooming in two shades of lilac, have planted tomatoes and basil (purple), and sown forget-me-nots.

And then it snowed.

Ah, life in the high desert region of Idaho!

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Cuilionn
Date: 16 May 04 - 07:45 PM

Spring fairsts:

1) Ah've seen ma fairst snappin turtle (twa days agae, in the middle o the road, nae harm dane!).

2) Last nicht there wis a wild thunderstorm, an Ah drove hame ower roads imperil'd by thoosands o lowpin puddocks (frogs). Ah've ne'er seen the like afore-- an Ah hope tae Guidness Ah missit maist o them!

3) Twa professional fairsts:
    We jist gaet notice frae the state o Maine that oor 501(c)(3) paperwairk is duly filed, meanin we'll sune be able tae seek grants tae fund oor cultural programs (an aiblin e'en get masel a paycheck noo an then!)
    We jist put in oor fairst proposal on an auld schuil-hoose that we hope tae turn intae a Celtic Cultural Centre ca'd "Ceilidh House." We're proposin that a nearby toon gie us a token lease-price, in exchange for us reddin the plaice up, fixin the roof, etc. We wairkit unco haird on the proposal, ettlin tae convince the toon that we'll bring a hantle o intangible & tangible benefits tae the local folk. Keep us Celtic Cultural Wairkers o Maine in yir guid thochts an prayers, aye?

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Pogo
Date: 16 May 04 - 06:13 PM

BTW finding this post is a refreshing break. I've been reading through some of the more politically inclined threads and while I am all for being aware of what's going on in the world, sometimes one does tend to get bogged down and depressed by it all.

It's nice to sit back and take a quiet moment to appreciate the small wonders of life that so often go unnoticed in our noisy, fast-paced mechanical world.

Go hug a tree everyone. Just...you know don't toy with it's emotions. |O)

Subject: RE: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Pogo
Date: 16 May 04 - 06:00 PM

:) Spring is such a lovely time of the year. My favorite season next to fall.

Subject: BS: Spring Firsts
From: Raptor
Date: 16 May 04 - 05:53 PM

Today I saw my first Monarch Butterfly

Friday I heard my first Eastern Bluebird

Raptor