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[MarkBC]

This is the official ( ) thread for meteorological spring 2023!
... even if the current weather in the West seems very much still winter.

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Feels like spring here, our low was only 20° this morning, and the first redwings have been seen.  Gotta be spring.

[ski3pin]

No power but internet came on.............running on the generator. Here's photos I took around here yesterday, the first day of meteorological spring 2023. Friday evening the next storm comes in with another couple of week of snow predicted.

 

Winter Storm - February 2023

 

[MarkBC]

It's relatively spring-y here today. At 8am it was already up to 32°F.

[Wandering Sagebrush]

It's relatively spring-y here today. At 8am it was already up to 32°F.

A heat wave it is.

[AWG_Pics]

Spring

by Mary Oliver

 

Somewhere

a black bear

has just risen from sleep

and is staring

 

down the mountain.

All night

in the brisk and shallow restlessness

of early spring

 

I think of her,

her four black fists

flicking the gravel,

her tongue

 

like a red fire

touching the grass,

the cold water.

There is only one question:

 

how to love this world.

I think of her

rising

like a black and leafy ledge

 

to sharpen her claws against

the silence

of the trees.

Whatever else

 

my life is

with its poems

and its music

and its glass cities,

 

it is also this dazzling darkness

coming

down the mountain,

breathing and tasting;

 

all day I think of her -—

her white teeth,

her wordlessness,

her perfect love.

[AWG_Pics]

And this maybe more like what we are now experiencing:

 

Walking to Indian River

by Mary Oliver

 

I’m ready for spring, but it hasn’t arrived.

Not yet.

Still I take my walk, looking for any early enhancements.

It’s mostly attitude. I’m certain I’ll see something.

I start down the path, peering in all directions.

The mangroves, as always, are standing in their beloved water, their new leaves

very small and tender and pale.

And, look! the way the rising sun strikes them, they could be flowers

opening!

[Wandering Sagebrush]

[Vic Harder]

 

And this maybe more like what we are now experiencing:

 

Walking to Indian River

by Mary Oliver

 

I’m ready for spring, but it hasn’t arrived.

Not yet.

Still I take my walk, looking for any early enhancements.

It’s mostly attitude. I’m certain I’ll see something.

I start down the path, peering in all directions.

The mangroves, as always, are standing in their beloved water, their new leaves

very small and tender and pale.

And, look! the way the rising sun strikes them, they could be flowers

opening!

 

I love Mary Oliver!

[Foy]

The yellow pine pollen first appeared on the hood of the truck on Tuesday Feb 28.  At 0424 hrs this morning, thunder booms and lightning flashes woke me up.  I reckon Spring is here in North Carolina.

 

Foy