signs and other things...

[armedoldhippy]

first frosts, even if it warms back up. winter is coming. geese going over low...cold foggy mornings. hearing something walking through the leaves at dawn, and reaching for your bow, the incredible aroma that a barn with fresh-cut hay & tobacco curing in it give off. how do you know Spring has arrived? blue-winged teal on the marsh? spring peepers in roadside ditches? maybe grouse drumming on a log or hearing a big tom roaring from his branch while it's still dark. maybe it is the stringer of slab crappie a neighbor shows you, or watching a male woodcock performing his sky dance. all of this...and more.

 

[Creeperpark]

first frosts, even if it warms back up. winter is coming. geese going over low...cold foggy mornings. hearing something walking through the leaves at dawn, and reaching for your bow, the incredible aroma that a barn with fresh-cut hay & tobacco curing in it give off. how do you know Spring has arrived? blue-winged teal on the marsh? spring peepers in roadside ditches? maybe grouse drumming on a log or hearing a big tom roaring from his branch while it's still dark. maybe it is the stringer of slab crappie a neighbor shows you, or watching a male woodcock performing his sky dance. all of this...and more.

It's time to get out the long johns and have them ready. The best thing is we can fire up our indoor gardens and use the lights as a heating source.

 

[armedoldhippy]

getting signs of spring here now, if a -bit- early. got daffodils blooming, robins hopping around the yard, and my patch of crocus flowers (crocuses?) have been up for over a week ! folks that can get out tell me that tom turkeys are running their mouths, and the white bass/walleye are already up in the rivers ...

 

[flower~power]

 

[GenghisKush]

I heard the spring peepers in January this year.

 

[armedoldhippy]

I heard the spring peepers in January this year.

frogs LIKE snow and ice...who knew?

 

[CharlesU Farley]

Spring has hit the mountains, that's always a sign for me to smile:

 

[Nannymouse]

Cannot count on the migratory birds, here. The geese arrived early, have been heading southeast, with this last storm stuff.

We used to go by when the lilacs budded, as far as planting gardens. I forget if we used to wait a couple of weeks after lilac buds. Something like that.

 

[armedoldhippy]

The geese arrived early, have been heading southeast

you're right, geese unreliable as hell. bluewing teal are pretty reliable, once they head north (or south) by golly, they go. they've been known to overshoot South America and end up being photographed on ice floes near Antarctica...