True Blue Majority stole my idea for my KTK diary today by asking if there are signs of Spring where you live in today's CUA diary. Hummm.
Well I am doing a picture diary showing all the things in bloom right now where I live. We are literally 4 weeks ahead of schedule this year compared to normal years. But to be honest, there are no normal years anymore. Until about 7 years ago, I could predict the weather would be off and on rainy and hit a high in the upper 40's to low 50's right now. This was the case until the later part of April. No longer.
This year California had the warmest winter on record and, to date, the 3rd driest winter on record. Today it reached 76 degrees here, as it did yesterday. Luckily we did get some rain a couple weeks ago and have just over 50% of normal rain totals where I live (27 inches to date. Normal is 53 inches of rain yearly here). We are supposed to get a week's worth of rain starting tomorrow. Yay!
Here is what is in bloom around our place right now. All these pics were taken yesterday afternoon and this morning.
Azaleas
Wild Bleeding Hearts
Grape Hyacinth (we have tons of these)
Pale Blue Flowers on this speckle-leafed beauty
Johnny Jump Ups
Tulips
Forsythia
More pics of our flowering plants after the orange KTK doily
Purple Iris
Calendula
Periwinkle
Chinese Fringe Flower
Candy Tuft
California Poppy
Camelia
Hyacinth (we have white, purple, red and pink ones)
Wisteria (starting to bloom already too!)
Stock (we have several colors)
Yellow Rose
Japanese Maples (in very large pots already fully leafed out!)
Smileycreek
Sancho
Got proof of Spring where you live?
|
|
|
|
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share part of the evening around a virtual kitchen table with kossacks who are caring and supportive of one another. So bring your stories, jokes, photos, funny pics, music, and interesting videos, as well as links—including quotations—to diaries, news stories, and books that you think this community would appreciate. Readers may notice that most who post diaries and comments in this series already know one another to some degree, but newcomers should not feel excluded. We welcome guests at our kitchen table, and hope to make some new friends as well.
|
|