You know you’re anxious for spring, when you celebrate two days in a row of sunshine and (mostly) blue sky. It won’t be long until those bare branches are filled with leaves.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Purple crocus
At last, a concrete sign of spring! Although when I see these tiny, first blossoms of the year, it seems to me that Mother Nature is tentatively testing the change of season. As if she’s saying, “Let’s see how these small flowers do before I commit to anything bigger.”
Keeping on the dreary side
Rain. More rain. Fog late this afternoon. Chance of rain or snow tonight. Chance of more rain tomorrow. The dreary weather in Madison lately is getting tiresome.
Need some green
I took a walk in the woods today. With everything still so bare and brown, it could very well be November instead of April. We need some green.
Sprouts!
Well look at that. The perennials in front of my house are starting to poke through last year’s mulch.
Finally! Spring is beginning in Wisconsin.
Kohleria blossoms
The snowy shadows of spring
When spring weather doesn’t arrive on time, there isn’t much to do except keep taking photos of winter.
No lifeguard on duty
It feels like it’s going to be a long time until the lifeguards make an appearance in Madison. While I was driving on the beltline this afternoon, I saw a bald eagle flying over the Yahara River. A sign of the continuing long winter, rather than the sign of spring I’d prefer to see.
Abandoned barn
Snow piles of March 2013
What a difference a year makes. In early March 2012, temperatures in Madison were in the mid 60’s. This year I’ve got snow piles at the end of my driveway that are over 60 inches tall.
I suppose there’s a kind of balance in there somewhere.