LOOK!!!! It's SPRING!!!!

[SouthernBelle]

Yesterday while riding, anytime I passed any kind of water, I heard frogs 'partying'. We must have lotsa randy frogs around here.

[SheFly]

Good news Sandra - can you send some here? Please?

Lisa and Crankin' - look on the bright side. March came in like a lion so it has to go out like a lamb, right?

We just got back from Maine. Wanna talk about snow? The banks at my house are over the bottoms of the windows . We won't be snowless there until July. We have been having the driveway plowed this winter, but we still have to shovel the entry way and to get our trailer out - took us over 1.5 hours just to do that! So far this winter they have had about 120" of snow...

Regardless, I'm going out for a ride today, and will flip Mother Nature the bird .

SheFly

[Crankin]

SheFly, I am debating whether to go for a ride or a snow shoe today. I don't have a lot of time, so it won't be anything super. When I was out snow shoeing yesterday, it did feel like spring. The snow was mushy even though it was fresh. I decided not to ski today because last Sunday the conditions at Great Brook were terrible even though we were there at 9 AM and it had just snowed. Plus, all those yahoos from Boston are there, for a trip to the "country." There was ice everywhere, along with exposed roots on the black diamond trail. I didn't fall there, but I did fall a few times on all of the other icy, rooty, grassy spots on the flats! It was very embarrassing.
I do plan to ride tomorrow after work, even though it will still be on my hybrid.
Robyn

[Jen-Jen]

I would love to be excited of Spring showing up soon. Right now it is 40* and tomorrow it should still be in the 40s, but SNOW! Seriously how can it snow if it is going to be 45* as a high? After that the bad news...30s and more snow.

I'm over this already......this is the first year that I am truely excited about biking and training. I need to take my Temp.

Hubby wants to move to North Carolina. I was thinking about the Winston Salem area. We can bike all year round he says. However, coming from a man who I believe has snowballs for brains, since he bikes all year round here,anyways, means very little to a person who hates freezing.

Anyone know if that area is nice?

[Skierchickie]

My yard after I got home from skiing today. We're in the 200" or so range so far, which is about average. I missed all the mid-winter pictures (frankly, not enough daylight hours to get out there and take any). Hope these attach - my first attempt.

Okay, so I do like tulips - I'm just not ready. Mine won't be up for a month or two. Or three?

Oh, and just for snowbank scale, that's a 50lb Aussie/German Shepherd mix in the 3rd picture. Lake Superior in the background.

[sandra]

Skierchickie, look at the first picture of this thread. Wanna do a house swap? I'd love to check out your place and you can come down here and ride every day. I never get to see snow!!!! That's a LOT!

[Skierchickie]

Sandra - hmmmm...... nope! Mississippi is hot & muggy - I'd melt! I have a rare condition called the Wicked Witch of the North Syndrome. Makes me crabby & sweaty in Mississippi. You could visit, though! It is a nice picture, by the way - very pretty, but very deceptively HOT! 70 is my max, and that is if it isn't too humid.

When you come up here, this would be the time of year. The sun is shining (not so much in January) and it's 35 right now, although it's supposed to drop through the teens tomorrow and be in the 20s most of the week.

I know this is blasphemy on TE, but I don't wanna ride in the winter! Skiing is my thing (for the last -erg - 33 years! Since I was 9.). Biking must wait another month or so.

Enjoy your flowers & unbearable heat!

[Meg McKilty]

I have no plants near me to show off with pictars!

[Possegal]

Sandra - hmmmm...... nope! Mississippi is hot & muggy - I'd melt! I have a rare condition called the Wicked Witch of the North Syndrome. Makes me crabby & sweaty in Mississippi.

I moved to Mississippi from PA for 5 yrs during school, I swear to whoever, parts of my car melted there. probably parts of me too. And I never quite got back my cold weather tolerance when I came back north.

But it was always a lot of fun to call the family and tell them I was wearing shorts in February. Not that we didn't have cold and snow (it was northern MS after all), but nothing like PA.