To appreciate a Minnesota spring, you have to keep your eyes open practically to the point of foregoing sleep, as it arrives and is over in just about a blink of an eye.You can quite literally go to sleep one night with mere buds on the trees, and wake up the next morning to open leaves.
I sometimes say to outsiders that a Minnesota spring, while beautiful, is about ten days long. This is only a slight exaggeration, as we indeed have had years where the temperatures shift from below zero to the mid 80s in the space of 10 days (It happened one year in the mid 1980s).
As evidence of this, I offer three shots of the same front yard—although taken in different years, they represent the same yard on an April 15, an April 25, and an April 30.
Happy spring, Geezers.
Do I spy FLP in the 2nd photo?
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Delete32 degrees last night here in Massachusetts, but not to worry because we had 70 degree weather 3 weeks ago and I got all my spring raking done.
ReplyDeleteSpringtime in Minnesota: stash the snow shovel, get out the lawn mower. No rest for the wicked.
ReplyDeleteThose three comparative April photos are wild. We had a bit of that in Indiana, though I think spring tarried a bit longer. Spring is our favorite time of the year and I think that love of spring is why we settled on the California central coast where it seems very much like a mid west spring, most of the year.
ReplyDeleteYour front yard looks beautiful.
Although we had a somewhat milder winter, spring here in Ontario seems to have been colcer than usual.
ReplyDeleteAt this end of the state we have about 3 weeks to go before we are at your point in seasons.
ReplyDeleteIt amazes me that things can change that quickly.
ReplyDeleteGeez, where I live, we are still waiting for last fall and winter...
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