The ground hog said more winter.
The hummingbird trackers say they’re already headed back this way so an early spring.
Which prediction do I believe?
BOTH OF THEM!
We’ve been blooming for over a month in Alabama. In late January the camellias popped out their pretty pink blooms. The daffodils came a bit early in the beginning of February. We also had tulip trees, flowering crab apples, and forsythia all sending out their blooms.
Our Bradford pear trees have bloomed and now turned green and leafy.
The pine trees are full of their loathsome yellow-green pollen. At least they were until last night’s torrential rains and windy storms. Maybe it knocked the stuff out so it won’t be such a problem this year.
In the middle of last week, my white dogwood tree began blooming. You can see leafy starts on many trees. Yesterday, it got up to eighty degrees. But this morning, the high was when we got up—a whopping forty-seven degrees—and it’s gotten colder all morning. So cold that it is snowing, big fluffy flakes that are icing up some of the bushes but not the ground and roads. I’d hoped to get a picture but it doesn’t photograph well. It just looks like streaks on the picture.
The long range weather forecast is the thirties the next two nights and back up to eighty-one by Saturday. I wonder if it will truly be spring by then. These mercurial temperature swings are the reason we don’t move our plants from their winter home in the kitchen to the screened in deck until after April first no matter how warm it gets before then!
My family in the great Midwest are dealing with snow storms and my sister in Hawaii is dealing with flash flooding from torrential rains. I hope their weather settles down soon, too. I hope where you are Spring is coming forth in all her glory—if not yet—soon. Enjoy!