Spring!

[nibot]

The transition to Spring here has been neither gradual nor subtle. On April 9th I woke to snow. Six days later, the parks were packed with Hanoverians in T-shirts tending barbecues and drinking Herrenhäuser. On April 14th the medians of the park were suddenly carpeted with little blue flowers. Today the daffodils bloomed. Yesterday some trees with white flowers exploded into bloom. Today it it's the pink-flowered trees. The green buds on the other trees seem to double in size day by day. Now we have sun and daylight past 9pm. It's a welcome relief from the monotonous gloom that lingered so long.

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[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

In Boston, spring always seemed to last for just two weeks. The plants would all chant, "Ready, GROW!" and there would be green and flowers everywhere, all of a sudden. Then boom, two weeks later it would be summer.

Quite the contrast to Seattle, where spring lingers from late February to the end of June.

In the southern US, well, seasons are just...different.

[that.livejournal.com]

Same here next door in Poland. One day it's cold, with piles of dirty ice that have been on the ground for months; the next it's balmy and bright. My students tell me that no-one can remember a longer winter.