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- AnotherFairportfan
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The trees have started blooming in the last two weeks or so.
I have pics of an i-don't-know-what-it-is up the road that's already dropping petals,
the flowering willow across the street has just hit what looks like maximum bloom
and some dogwoods around here are in nearly full bloom, while others (like that one in the Square) are still just beginning.
There are other trees that aren't quite so showy
and the daffodils are almost over
I have pics of an i-don't-know-what-it-is up the road that's already dropping petals,
the flowering willow across the street has just hit what looks like maximum bloom
and some dogwoods around here are in nearly full bloom, while others (like that one in the Square) are still just beginning.
There are other trees that aren't quite so showy
and the daffodils are almost over
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- shadowinthelight
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Julie, about Wapsi Square wrote:Oh goodness yes. So much paranormal!
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I'm done thinking for today! It's caused me enough trouble!
- AnotherFairportfan
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Converted to GIF:
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Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
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Looks like a redbud, or a forsythia...
More and more like a violet pinky forsythia...
Though my mother used to mess with the fertilisers and make our yellow ones turn colours, so maybe?
More and more like a violet pinky forsythia...
Though my mother used to mess with the fertilisers and make our yellow ones turn colours, so maybe?
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
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Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
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That's definitely not Castela's Kiddygarden teacher...AnotherFairportfan wrote:
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- AnotherFairportfan
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Each bloom is darned near the size of a tulip...DinkyInky wrote:Looks like a redbud, or a forsythia...
More and more like a violet pinky forsythia...
Though my mother used to mess with the fertilisers and make our yellow ones turn colours, so maybe?
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- AnotherFairportfan
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Not all violets are violet
...and sometimes leaves aren't green
...and sometimes leaves aren't green
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Early dogwood blooms
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Left side is what the camera says is the proper exposure - right is one stop "overexposed"
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- lake_wrangler
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Meanwhile, our snow has not finished melting...
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Lazy snow.lake_wrangler wrote:Meanwhile, our snow has not finished melting...
Julie, about Wapsi Square wrote:Oh goodness yes. So much paranormal!
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I'm done thinking for today! It's caused me enough trouble!
- lake_wrangler
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I'll be sure to tell it you said so...shadowinthelight wrote:Lazy snow.lake_wrangler wrote:Meanwhile, our snow has not finished melting...
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Snow?... What is this "Snow" stuff you're talking about?shadowinthelight wrote:Lazy snow.lake_wrangler wrote:Meanwhile, our snow has not finished melting...
we had MAYBE 2 days worth of snow here in Federal Way (between Seattle and Tacoma, WA...
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- AnotherFairportfan
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In honour of the illustrious holiday today:
I may have posted this one before, but it's so classic.
Back in 1979, when Fairport Convention broke up (until 1985) the band were staying with friends in Oxford.
March 31st, Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, and some others stayed up late solving the woes of the world with the aid of a bottle of Scotch.
Simon wandered next door to the house where he was staying, while Swarb and his host and others opened another bottle of single-malt inspiration (or two).
Simon woke some time the next morning, and remembered three things.
{A} Swarb, with visions of becoming a gentleman farmer (that lasted real quick) had bought a farm in Scotland.
{B} An American fighter jet had crashed in Scotland very recently.
{C} What day it was.
So a tap was rigged to a phone and run to a stereo downstairs, and Simon called next door and impersonated a Scottish policeman.
First he gets Swarb's wife (one of several - collect the set). She runs upstairs to wake Swarb, then runs next door to relay the horrible news.
It''s said Swarb's wife's is the loudest laughter heard at the end.
(As the label on The Cropredy Box says - "Warning: Contains Explicit Swarbrick". There are a whole lot of "F"s near the end. I would say this is NSFW.)
http://electronictiger.net/april_fool.mp3
I may have posted this one before, but it's so classic.
Back in 1979, when Fairport Convention broke up (until 1985) the band were staying with friends in Oxford.
March 31st, Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, and some others stayed up late solving the woes of the world with the aid of a bottle of Scotch.
Simon wandered next door to the house where he was staying, while Swarb and his host and others opened another bottle of single-malt inspiration (or two).
Simon woke some time the next morning, and remembered three things.
{A} Swarb, with visions of becoming a gentleman farmer (that lasted real quick) had bought a farm in Scotland.
{B} An American fighter jet had crashed in Scotland very recently.
{C} What day it was.
So a tap was rigged to a phone and run to a stereo downstairs, and Simon called next door and impersonated a Scottish policeman.
First he gets Swarb's wife (one of several - collect the set). She runs upstairs to wake Swarb, then runs next door to relay the horrible news.
It''s said Swarb's wife's is the loudest laughter heard at the end.
(As the label on The Cropredy Box says - "Warning: Contains Explicit Swarbrick". There are a whole lot of "F"s near the end. I would say this is NSFW.)
http://electronictiger.net/april_fool.mp3
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
- Catawampus
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Though I did find what may be a baby Whatsit playing in the snow on the south side of the ridge.lake_wrangler wrote:Meanwhile, our snow has not finished melting...
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aAhhh, then I know exactly what it is...it's an Ann Magnolia Tulip. The pictures you posted made it look like the blooms were small.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Each bloom is darned near the size of a tulip...DinkyInky wrote:Looks like a redbud, or a forsythia...
More and more like a violet pinky forsythia...
Though my mother used to mess with the fertilisers and make our yellow ones turn colours, so maybe?
Yanno how some people have Angels/Devils for a conscience? I have a Dark Elf ShadowKnight and a Half Elf Ranger for mine. The really bad part is when they agree on something.
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
Aphyon chu kissa whol l'jaed.
--Safyr Drathmir
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That's not unusual for that altitude in that area, though.scantrontb wrote:Snow?... What is this "Snow" stuff you're talking about?shadowinthelight wrote:Lazy snow.lake_wrangler wrote:Meanwhile, our snow has not finished melting...
we had MAYBE 2 days worth of snow here in Federal Way (between Seattle and Tacoma, WA...
One of my daughters in Seattle told us that the ski lodges in the area didn't get enough snow to open at all this winter. That'll be tough.
- lake_wrangler
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I told the snow what you said... Do you know what their response was?lake_wrangler wrote:I'll be sure to tell it you said so...shadowinthelight wrote:Lazy snow.lake_wrangler wrote:Meanwhile, our snow has not finished melting...
IT CALLED FOR REINFORCEMENTS!
(We're expecting 2 to 4 inches of snow between now and Easter... with some freezing rain tomorrow, as well...)
- AnotherFairportfan
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Only the first is that tress - the other pink ones are others.DinkyInky wrote:aAhhh, then I know exactly what it is...it's an Ann Magnolia Tulip. The pictures you posted made it look like the blooms were small.AnotherFairportfan wrote:Each bloom is darned near the size of a tulip...DinkyInky wrote:Looks like a redbud, or a forsythia...
More and more like a violet pinky forsythia...
Though my mother used to mess with the fertilisers and make our yellow ones turn colours, so maybe?
I couldn't get really near it, because it was quite a ways into the lawn and i didn't want to trespass, so i used the long lens to shoot it, which flattened the perspective quite a bit.
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.