Stopping to enjoy the flowers..And how are things where you are.

[usmc1]

At last spring has arrived here. Balmy breezes with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. The arrival of the scissor-tailed flycatchers in the meadow made it official. The week before, the cattle egrets showed up. And, my mocking bird is back with a repetoire of new melodies from some far off place. And, last Friday as we sat on the porch noodling with the dogs we looked out at the graden fence and there sat our little ruby-throat, back from Latin America and impatiently mooching for his feeder to be put up in the tree. As we attended to that, he buzzed around our heads like a bumble bee on a Saturday night spree.

Hummers are such intereesting little deals, they make these incredible 1,000s of miles voyages south each year to return to their same stomping (well buzzing if you insist) grounds each years. How they must get buffeted about, yet there they are each year mooching feeders with perfect equanimity.

We've had good rains this spring and the meadows, fields and pastures are lush. Our south pasture is like a pointilist painting, with crimson Red clover growing thigh high, scarlet Indian Paint push in with lavender Gentian, and several varities of smaller golden, white, and pink Clovers, yellow Butter Cups and Texas Star against against a canvas of bright green and tawny beige from the tall grass. Darting around through the field one can see flashes of black, orange and yellow from the Swallow Tail, Monarch and Sulpher buterflies.

Right now it is the sweet crepuscular time of day, the time Ray Bradbury calls the golden time, and the air is laden with the pungeant spicyness of the Wisteria and softly sweetly sensual almost female scent of the Confederate Jasmine. It is nice, and we're enjoying while we can, soon it will be Texas in the summer and blazing hot and staggeringly humid.

How's things there?

[usmc1]

At last spring has arrived here. Balmy breezes with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. The arrival of the scissor-tailed flycatchers in the meadow made it official. The week before, the cattle egrets showed up. And, my mocking bird is back with a repetoire of new melodies from some far off place. And, last Friday as we sat on the porch noodling with the dogs we looked out at the graden fence and there sat our little ruby-throat, back from Latin America and impatiently mooching for his feeder to be put up in the tree. As we attended to that, he buzzed around our heads like a bumble bee on a Saturday night spree.

Hummers are such intereesting little deals, they make these incredible 1,000s of miles voyages south each year to return to their same stomping (well buzzing if you insist) grounds each years. How they must get buffeted about, yet there they are each year mooching feeders with perfect equanimity.

We've had good rains this spring and the meadows, fields and pastures are lush. Our south pasture is like a pointilist painting, with crimson Red clover growing thigh high, scarlet Indian Paint push in with lavender Gentian, and several varities of smaller golden, white, and pink Clovers, yellow Butter Cups and Texas Star against against a canvas of bright green and tawny beige from the tall grass. Darting around through the field one can see flashes of black, orange and yellow from the Swallow Tail, Monarch and Sulpher buterflies.

Right now it is the sweet crepuscular time of day, the time Ray Bradbury calls the golden time, and the air is laden with the pungeant spicyness of the Wisteria and softly sweetly sensual almost female scent of the Confederate Jasmine. It is nice, and we're enjoying while we can, soon it will be Texas in the summer and blazing hot and staggeringly humid.

How's things there?

[Boreas]

Thanks for the picturesque post about spring in Texas! We are finally getting spring up here along the Alaska Highway. Winter came with a vengeance on October 27th and stayed solidly in place until the end of March. We had five solid months of snow and a lot of -30C temps.

Our house faces south and we have tulips, daffodils, bachelor buttons and possibly other perennials popping up through the soil. Yay. The snow is almost disappeared and we have mud and dust all around. Wonderful things at this time of year! Last year we went to see a comedian here and he described this town as the only place where you can be up to your knees in mud and still get dust in your eyes. He'd be right. After five months of winter it is most welcome! The temperature has gone double digit in the celsius scale. Today is about 13 or so celsius. Almost shirt sleeve weather for Canadians!

Life is good. Summer is coming and our summers are not humid. Praises be!

[Tampanude]

Here in Florida the weather is gradually becoming more humid, averaging abot 83 degrees f, signalling the impending rainy (and Hurricane) season.
The little rain we have received recently has awakened the crickets and frogs in the evening; soon to become a nightly amphibious chorus.
The pollen inundation is waning and all the flora and fauna await the impending first great thunderstorms that will cause all to "pop" alive, including the annual alligator mating season (unwise to walk the terrier lakeside,,, HeHeHe).
The migrational birds are heading back to their summer homes and hedges aand trees are filling out with new blooms.

[NudeAl]

Spring is rather late comming to the northwest.

However all of the wild flowers are in bloom and the cherry tree in the front yard is a brilliant pink with many other native blooms in the woods beyond. The grass is green and lush. It needs to be mowed but it looks so alive now I don't have the heart to do it yet. I just planted some boxwood and rhododendrons that I hope will fill out in years to come. Typical spring weather here though sunny and 60 one day and overcast and raining the next but fewer and fewer temps below freezing latley. But we will not be out of danger of a frost until late May. So I will refrain from planting any flowers till later, perhaps next month before Labor Day.

[nudeM]

The trees are turning green, the flowers are blooming and the clothes are coming off. What a way of life. It's a beautiful time of year.

[texasjoe]

Here it is in the high seventies and sunny. We have interesting weather at least once a week. The grass is still green and the lakes are finally filling up after a few dry years. Great outdoors weather. One advantage to working nights is that the neighbors are gone and the kiddos are in school during this glorious weather!

[alfredr]

This must be the naturalist-naturist topic.

We had a good hard frost for Easter and it knocked all the pears and peaches off the trees, but the apple flowered after the freeze. Fig tree seems to be coming back from the roots, no leaves on old wood since the freeze. We are short on rain here, severe drought they said last week.

I haven't had much time to go looking for morel mushrooms, but I think it would take some more warmer weather and some rain to get mushrooms to pop up. And I don't know if I have any here anyway, only my second spring here.

I spent the whole day under the econo-commuter car changing one inaccesible coolant hose. PITA big time. But I was nude. Had to rub hand cleaner all over my body (maybe you didn't want to know that?) but no greasy clothes.

[nacktman]

Enjoying the warm spring and watching the flowers grow, here at Schloss Nackt.

The pool has already become the hub of activity for the season.
(I never should have got those supersoakers for the grandkids! )

[alfredr]

They are still known in our family as "thuperthoakerth." Toothless kids!