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#1 MarkBC

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 05:22 AM

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

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#2 Wandering Sagebrush

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 02:26 PM

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


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#3 ski3pin

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 03:57 PM

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

 


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#4 MarkBC

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 05:32 PM

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

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 06:42 PM

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

A heat wave it is. :P


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#6 AWG_Pics

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 08:40 PM

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.

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 08:47 PM

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!

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#8 Wandering Sagebrush

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 09:01 PM

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#9 Vic Harder

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 09:34 PM

 

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!


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#10 Foy

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Posted 02 March 2023 - 10:26 PM

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


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