While we are still about a month from a full outbreak of spring weather in the city, I thought I post some tulip pictures to get us into the spring feeling as we wrap up March.
At Washington Park.
At the State Capitol.
Tulips and the Egg on the Plaza.
A burst of color in front of the Moses statue.
Usually, Thursday is my day to go to store at lunchtime and then down to the library to work, but I don’t think that will be the plan for today — much too chilly and wet today. We need the rain, and it will help kill off more of the remaining snow, and get us out of rain/snow deficit we’ve had lately this winter, but it doesn’t make for nice looking out my window today at work. Kind of miss the basement office when things look like this. Been trying to get my CDTA navigator card updated — they’re having computer backend issues at CDTA but they say they are working on it.
I am already ready for winter to be over and the snow to be gone.
So I camp and not have to deal with the snow.
Have longer nights.
And bigger fires.
Spend more time exploring the wilderness.
The season of mud, manure and black flies can’t be that far away. Just make it through a week and do it ten more times, and then we can at least look at the calendar and pretend that spring is upon us while looking jealously at the folks down south with all their green grass.
Ten weeks is both a short time period and a incredibly long one to when you think about it. It’s the time period between the first day of summer and Labor Day Weekend. Winter is a slog, but you get through it. But by that second week of March, winter often is receding, and some days are nice. Not having sunset until 7 PM means that the evenings are much longer, especially when you figure in that dusk doesn’t happen for another 28 minutes thereafter.
I was looking at the calendar and realized it’s only three months until April 2021. Looking forward to the warmer weather, trout season and hopefully a little less cold.
Between 1961 and 1990, the Tug Hill Plateau and Eastern Adirondacks averaged 65 inches of precipitation a year. This is the wettest part of the state. In contrast, the Finger Lakes region of the state only receives about 35 inches a year on average. http://cugir.mannlib.cornell.edu/datatheme.jsp?id=164