It is SPRING!

[Aggie_Ama]

I am really sorry some of you are not quite here yet but spring has sprung in Texas!! The past two weeks the Texas Mountain Laurels been blooming like CRAZY. I wish I could send a smell through the computer, it is like grape koolaid rolling down the road.

Then yesterday I saw them- Bluebonnets, our state flower. They are a wildflower but TXDOT also shoots seeds so we have more. Last week we finally got rain and this week the flowers are here! I love bluebonnets.

Plus the goats, sheep, horses, donkeys and cattle have babies. Hooray, I love spring. I am in a great mood today must be all that grape koolaid in the air.

[sundial]

I LOVE BLUEBONNETS!!

Can you post pictures of the beauties? Pretty please??

My Yoshino cherry tree is blossoming. Oh the joy!!

[sundial]

first blossom

[Aggie_Ama]

How gorgeous thanks for sharing!

Tomorrow I plan to commute home and take the camera. I will look like a tourist taking pics of the bonnets but I love them. I have never tired of them living here all my life. I was shocked to see so many popping, all courtesy of that 3-4 days of rain last week.

I wish I could figure out where those mountain laurels on the last county road to my neighborhood are. It is so fragrant! I usually smell grass or the critters (lots of goats and cattle) but right now mountain laurels, my favorite smell after gardenias blooming.

[indigoiis]

That looks and sounds lovely. sigh.
Signs of Spring in RI:

1. College students wearing shorts (tho it's 40d outside) "lying out" on the green.
2. Sand piles where there were snow piles.
3. My DH moved the plow truck to the side of the barn, instead of in front of it. But doesn't take the whole plow off, cuz there might be "one more big one."
4. Mud.
5. Zeppolas.
6. Forsythia sprigs in bunches selling for $4.99 at Stop and Shop, when next week they will be in bloom.
6. No more frozen dog poop to scoop! Comes up easier nowadays...
7. People with "NPT" round stickers on the backs of convertables, driving with the top down and the heat on, wrapped in down and scarves.
8. Short skirts and sleeveless tops.
9. Sweaters start to smell.
10. People get the iced mocha latte at Dunkin Donuts, instead of the regulah cawfee.

[ny biker]

Signs of spring in Washington, DC:

- Partisan bickering on Capitol Hill

Oh wait, that's also a sign of summer, winter and fall... :-)

Let me start over.

Signs of spring in Washington, DC:

- Cherry blossoms!

Tourist season kicks off in high gear. Park rangers who work on the National Mall call it "March madness."

[sundial]

6. No more frozen dog poop to scoop! Comes up easier nowadays...

LOL!

[wackyjacky1]

I LOVE BLUEBONNETS!!

Can you post pictures of the beauties? Pretty please??

Ask and ye shall receive! I snapped this pic on the homeward leg of my ride today:

[Aggie_Ama]

Thanks! I haven't had my real camera along and with my tremors the camera phone is just a blurry mess. The small rain two weeks ago really made our pop!

[sundial]

Thank you Wacky!! Ahhhh, the bluebonnets. I wish I could grow them here.

[GLC1968]

Signs of Spring -

The pansy's that I planted last fall are blooming again


And so are the dafodils:


AND, we had to spend a couple of hours mowing our lawn yesterday for fear it would take over the house (it was so long already!). Spring is here!