Impatient for spring

[Ron-NY]

 

[NYEric]

It's so weird! Very little snow this year and it's colder this week than last week!

 

[cdub]

Boy, Ron, we're a little ahead of you in Central VT. Here are some blooms I found on a walk around the neighborhood this afternoon.

Galanthus nivalis
Eranthus hyemalis
Crocus
Iris
Scilla sciberica

 

[ohio-guy]

wow ....nice photos....really like the bee!

 

[Ron-NY]

I spent the weekend in Manchester, Vt...there was no snow at all and it is much higher in elevation than where I am at.

 

[mccallen]

A few from the West Coast too:

 

[SlipperFan]

Cool. I've seen a couple of butterflies. My snowdrops are in bloom, but nothing else yet.

 

[Ross]

Two feet of snow fell on Sunday just north of us. Happy Spring!

 

[Corbin]

Patience Ron

 

[toddybear]

When is spring? With 4 feet of snow around here, it seems a long way off!

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Did someone say spring???

My backyard this morning...with more to come over the next few days..:sob:

 

[Ron-NY]

YIKES!! I hope that isn't headed my way...we are having unusually warm weather, it is mid 80's F today

 

[SlipperFan]

Not quite that warm here, but in the 70's for the past few days. Much welcomed after all that cold and snow we had this year.

Yoyo-Jo, I feel your pain!

 

[smartie2000]

!!!!!! It snowed! my city is like Jo's. probably at least a foot of snow and still going

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Can you believe this??

:sob:

This is my backyard, right now, about 5 pm. May 8th. Where the heck is spring??

 

[cdub]

Spring is here! Just south of the border. Took a wildflower walk the other day on a preserve owned by our local land trust.

Caltha palustris (and Equisetum arvense)

Trillium grandiflorum

Trillium erectum

Erythronium americanum

Hepatica nobilis var. acutiloba

Uvularia grandiflora

I also saw many other things growing but not in bloom and I found this little guy! It is the terrestrial form of our native spotted newt (I think). I'm a botanist, not a herpetologist. These red guys are called "efts" until they change into their adult aquatic stage.

 

[SlipperFan]

Awwwww -- I want a newt.

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Wonderful spring photos cdub! :clap: What a cute newt.

 

[Ron-NY]

very nice...you seem to be 2 weeks behind me. Zone 3?

I always called them spotted salamanders. I saw some adults mating in the shallows of my pond...the ice couldn't have been off the pond for more than a day or so when I noticed them.

I love Hepatica! The first thing to bloom for me. I believe my Marsh Marigolds are still in bloom as well as the Trillium. I have a few painted trillium around too as well as the red and white ones.

I am fortunate to have all of these growing out in my woods.

Trillium undulatum (Painted Trillium)

 

[Jerry Delaney]

Spring arrived here in sunny Bakersfield, CA March 3, at exactly 1:08 PM. It was immediately followed by summer on March 3, at exactly 1:11 PM!