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Post by ragdall on Apr 1, 2011 7:48:11 GMT
The glacier in my backyard has been receding away from the south side of the house. I was amazed to see these crocuses blooming a few days after the flowerbed reappeared.
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Post by maeve on Apr 1, 2011 16:32:49 GMT
How lovely, rags! These purple crocus appeared in the last couple of days, and are now under over 8 inches of new snow! Attachments:
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Post by ragdall on Apr 1, 2011 20:35:12 GMT
maeve, Your purple crocus are gorgeous. I love the way that they shine in the light.
Intellectually, I know that the snow will melt every spring, days will get longer and we'll feel the warmth of the sun for a couple of months, but when I'm looking out the window at a ten foot high pile of snow on my lawn, it's very hard to believe. Crocus are my first blooms in the spring. The sight of them coming up through the leaves that died under the snow shouts "rebirth and hope" and nudges me to find the energy and motivation to do things.
rags
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Post by maeve on Apr 1, 2011 21:20:36 GMT
rags- I understand. Yesterday I was raking some of the garden beds; today at 5:18 PM we're still watching the snow (about a foot now) accumulate on top of the old drifts.
What projects might you pursue?
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 2, 2011 8:53:28 GMT
you get warm, we get cold! Daylight savings ends in 6 hours
good to see your beautiful flowers.
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Post by maeve on Apr 2, 2011 16:02:02 GMT
To what do you look forward at this time of year, Sandra?
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Post by ragdall on Apr 3, 2011 7:07:56 GMT
rags- I understand. Yesterday I was raking some of the garden beds; today at 5:18 PM we're still watching the snow (about a foot now) accumulate on top of the old drifts. What projects might you pursue? maeve, I hope that the snow won't last. I've been out driving on roads that are snow and ice free, looking for spring birds migrating through our area and enjoying the sunshine and longer days. Soon I'll be removing winter killed leaves and plants and raking dead grass, fallen berries, crab apples and road gravel out of my lawns. Sandra, I'm sorry that our gain has to be at your loss. I hope that you'll have a good winter. rags
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 3, 2011 10:53:53 GMT
poor us - weather getting colder - in my neck of the woods in mid winter it actually gets down to 9C at night! & 16C in the day (49-61F) www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/aboutsydney/visitorguidesinformation/Weather.aspsome plants dropping leaves (usually only Nthn Hemisphere imports, we only have 10 deciduous natives) what I'm looking forward to is LESS HUMIDITY!!! Softer winter sun (you should see Nthn Hemisphere backpackers who don't know how fierce our summer sun is!) I'm also looking froward to my winter-flowering zygocactus (aka christmas cactus) flowering wearing long-sleeved shirts & knee-socks in the cooler weather & my old trackies at night of course, when I move a few kms inland in a few years, I will be needing a heater at night & won't get the cool harbour/sea-breezes in summer! sandra plants seen today - a trumpet plant Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 3, 2011 10:55:02 GMT
a lovely balcony display Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 3, 2011 10:56:12 GMT
a purple tree Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 3, 2011 10:57:24 GMT
and a green tree with a bit of purple on it! Attachments:
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Post by ragdall on Apr 4, 2011 6:11:18 GMT
Sandra, You have so many beautiful plants there. It still looks very much like summer there. Your winter temperatures sound very similar to our typical summer weather, although we usually do get a few days that are up in the 20's.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 4, 2011 11:24:00 GMT
I like summer days in mid-high 20s, it's when they get to mid-late 30's with our usual high summer humidity that I retreat inside with curtains drawn & fans working overtime.
your summer seems a tad to cool for me! But google images for 'british columbia summer' show some summer-like scenes, including girls in bikinis! Search on 'british columbia winter' shows lots of snow!
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Post by ragdall on Apr 5, 2011 2:29:42 GMT
Sandra, British Columbia is diverse and huge. We have high mountains where the snow never melts, desert, rain forest, boreal forest, grasslands, farmland, and a 7,022-kilometre long ocean coastline. I copied this information about the size of BC from the VancouverIsland.com website: British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province, is located on the Pacific coast of North America, and has a land and freshwater area of 95 million hectares. It is Canada's third-largest province and comprises 9.5 per cent of the country's total land area. The province is nearly four times the size of Great Britain, 2.5 times larger than Japan, and larger than any American state except Alaska. BC is 1.35 times bigger than Texas! There are only thirty nations in the world larger than British Columbia. I live in "Northern BC", which is actually almost exactly in the middle of the province. We get lots of snow. Some places in the south rarely get snow and when they do get it, it melts within a few days. There are places in British Columbia that get much hotter than where I live and there are people here who will wear bikinis even when it isn't very hot. Some people here have been wearing shorts outdoors since the weather got above freezing. We're a hardy bunch in "the north".
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 5, 2011 8:11:52 GMT
well-I-never!
Alaska to the left, Washington state below, Calgery to the right, Yukon above - all these places I've heard of!
and many I haven't heard of!
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