jarekFeb 27

Gonna start a new thread for pre-spring, the thaw season.

There's still a lot of snow, dirty ice, salt, and grime, but it's a sunny afternoon, and people are out with their faces up to the sun 

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First cardinal spotting
Feb 28 at 2:45pmWeb
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Geese flying north, ahonk
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Saw the first green shoots in the south-facing yard today #phenology

Genuinely sooner than I expected, I thought this was covered with snowpack yesterday, but maybe not?

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The ice has receded enough to allow removal of some of the Yulefest lights
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One of the cars that's been parked on our street and not moved since The Snow has now moved :o
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I have removed the last of the ground-mounted Yulefest lights (though not their support posts, for now still frozen in the ground) just in time for the return of dark and snowy weather
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As of today, for the first time in about two months, our front yard has no snow or ice
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-6 in the morning, and realy does feel like the windchill -12
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A very crimson cardinal in the tree
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21 degrees at Pearson, and first 20 degrees of the year at UWaterloo weather station
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Noticed first flowers in the south-facing yard, looks like they're actually a couple of days old

Previous years, going by my sunny garden posts:
- 2025: March 31 https://sunny.garden/@jarek/114258019713354395 maybe the flowers were out a little sooner
- 2024: March 8 https://sunny.garden/@jarek/112062729408395211, by March 13 there was a bee even?? https://sunny.garden/@jarek/112090931912393071

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Lightning and distant thunder
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#BloomscrollingWithBee