Spring on Our Doorstep 🐈‍⬛

Spring Memories

 

Springtime in Vermont 

Now a Memory with an errant finger.

Spring

Watching the plants grow... Fred got these grow boxes and hmmm interesting! https://t.co/luWIHfYqkU pic.twitter.com/scL5EErntZ

— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) April 21, 2019

Spring

Spring

Tiger swallowtail Butterflies taking a break 😎 pic.twitter.com/RgVcHrESzB

— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) April 10, 2019

Spring Light

Spring Views

Unlike our Vermont Family in the North Country, We Are Enjoying a beautiful Virginia Spring. Flowering trees and shrubs welcome the warm sunshine 🌞 

Yesterday Magnolias greeted us warmly...

Spring,

Hurry Spring,

I've told you this before,

Spring is late,

We can't wait,

Couple nice days,

Does not a spring make.

The swallows are back...

Photos from the archives. Meg

Early Spring

Early Spring

Addison County, Vermont

What a cold winter we had.

Cold lingering into early spring.

The flat stretches are characteristic of Addison County.

Once the old Seabed of The Champlain Sea,
Now special farmland.

The Adirondacks from Vermont

Spring archives

With Spring comes flowers.

Thankfully everything dormant

Soon to be blooming

Restoring our faith

Spring Storm Photos

Guest photos by Fred...

Yesterday's storm started with a thick layer of ice bound with icing thick heavy wet snow.

Totals varied.

These from Monkton,Vermont.

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Willy's Pond

Spring

Spring 

images from the archives

and an archival photo of the building of the 

award winning Crown Point Bridge...

Spring

A chilly spring day,
Here are photos from past springs.
Color such a welcome sight after stick season.

and yesterday was
the day i turned 54,
a curious age, the number,
it haunted me,
then it gave me
a reason to research the number.
Significant and not. Haunting and reassuring.
the number laden with "3"s.
3x3x3x2=54
3 to the 3rd x2=54
5+4=9 which is 3x3
and other combo's.
For me a day to recalibrate and consume chocolate at all meals.
Fred's chocolate waffles, sausage and our maple syrup started the day.
3 meals with chocolate in them...
feeling the threes..

Spring II

Species tulip above
Tulipa Tarda
The original “wild” tulip.

Shock the neighbors tulips
(the orange component-the purple ones died out)

Rhubarb
Strawberry season must be close at hand…
well at least when it gets a little warmer.
We will take color where we can get it.
Stumbled onto Ray LaMontagne on CBS last night,
was a great concert! Search for it-they may have a tape.
I twittered it but really do not know what that did.
or should I say tweetered?
enjoying spring and sun for a change.

Spring is fighting

Spring is fighting,
To burst through all the cold,
and dry the waterlogged ground,
Trees and some roads halfway underwater,
The Sun giving us a hopeful diversion
and working his best
to dry up these flooded
sea bottoms, these meandering Lake Champlain valleys.
Yellow-Green or Green-Yellow is the crayon
I would use to color
the maple leaves
just starting to show their intention
of living,
full with water,
ready to burst into our familiar
comforting
summer
Green.

Red wings

First you hear their sound,
a liquid trill, then the song plays out.
Repeats all day long.

They are back,
the red winged blackbirds.

The males stake out a tree or in some cases a blade of grass,
and just start in singing.

Equidistant apart, they establish their residences,
their territories, attracting mates,
much like the 2 legged creatures who delight in hearing their song.

They are back,
a sure sign of spring,
the Robin a poor indicator since so many
overwinter here.

Red wings,
their song,
it is spring.

Moon

I looked out this morning at the frost on the grass,
yesterday's snowfall melted by the spring sun.
Today the first day of Spring,
Temperature is in the teens F.
With the Sun today we will warm up to the 40's F.
I wished I could capture in a photo the sparkling of the frost this morning.
It oscillates, or more appropriately said it
scintillates in sync with some yet to be validated phenomenon
(see the book messages in water).
Last night we waited for the Moon to rise, wishing to capture
that moment, where the Moon is virtually closest to us. Did I say that right?
But some news people said
The Moon got bigger
And that, I believe is why we are in the trouble we are in.
Happy Spring!

OK, here is one attempt I made to image the moon over the mountains. nothing like the real thing.

Spring sunset. Happy Equinox.

Happy Spring Equinox

Here is a spring 2010 sunset (early by VT standards)
Look closely to see the geese flying due North.

mary gerdt