Favorite signs of spring?

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19 Feb 2011, 1:21 am

Cherry blossoms, for me. Seeing tulip leaves poke up - my mother would plant a tulip bed every year. Feeling alive again after dragging through the winter.

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19 Feb 2011, 1:48 am

Spring Break!

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19 Feb 2011, 2:17 am

Warmer weather, longer hours of sunlight, hearing birds sing again, and of course the flowers and plants popping up.

I can't wait for spring this year. This has been a long winter.

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19 Feb 2011, 7:59 am

Budding flowers

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19 Feb 2011, 8:04 am

Melting snow, temperatures above 50, and birds returning.

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19 Feb 2011, 8:23 am

budding trees
the return of robins
crocuses popping up through what snow remains
sunshine after 6pm

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19 Feb 2011, 1:59 pm

I have a Red bud and Magnolia tree- nice blooms in March and April.
-The tulips and the Rhododendrons.

A Red bud pic

Mine is a little smaller yet.

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19 Feb 2011, 2:40 pm

I love walking home after lectures, and realising it's warm enough to sit around in the park reading

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19 Feb 2011, 2:46 pm

Longer sunlight hours and generally the fact that isn't effing cold anymore.

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19 Feb 2011, 11:02 pm

Probably the smell. I love the smell of the seasons, even winter.

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19 Feb 2011, 11:06 pm

Mdyar wrote:

I have a Red bud and Magnolia tree- nice blooms in March and April.
-The tulips and the Rhododendrons.

A Red bud pic

Mine is a little smaller yet.

Maryland has a succession of flowering trees, redbuds are among the first...all in all it makes up nicely for missing out on Vermont in the fall.

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19 Feb 2011, 11:37 pm

Natty_Boh wrote:

Mdyar wrote:

I have a Red bud and Magnolia tree- nice blooms in March and April.
-The tulips and the Rhododendrons.

A Red bud pic

Mine is a little smaller yet.

Maryland has a succession of flowering trees, redbuds are among the first...all in all it makes up nicely for missing out on Vermont in the fall.

I live in zone 5a and I can't get a Dogwod tree to live here. The two each acquired anthracnose and croaked. They were local grown too.
We have family a little south (zone5b) and these beautiful Dogwoods are everywhere in sight- even the Red Dogwood.

I'd bet this is nice there in Maryland.

White Dogwood

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20 Feb 2011, 12:04 am

jamesongerbil wrote:

Probably the smell. I love the smell of the seasons, even winter.

Describe the smell please! How does spring smell to you? We don't really have seasons where I live so I'm curious.

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20 Feb 2011, 9:21 am

Frogspawn in my pond. 16th of April last year and I've already spotted frogs this year so it should be soon.

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20 Feb 2011, 2:07 pm

"Soft" sunlight. Normally our sunlight is harsh and blue/white, but in Spring it's soft and yellowish...at least for a few days. We're having one of those days right now.

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20 Feb 2011, 3:48 pm

Birds singing.
The general improvement in the colours (plants/trees) and light.
This is an odd one and not really 'nature' related! But, people who own scooters seem to start using them again in spring, and the scooter sound reminds me that summer is not that far away!
Other people, and my own mood improves, (plus there's the lack of moaning about how bitterly cold and 'dark' it is!).
Sunlight 'catching'.
The air feels 'crisper' (and more forgiving!).

(It's almost time to stop having to wear a coat, I love spring!)

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