Flowers

[old2soon]

       YUP you did in Fact read the lead correctly. The Daffodils have about run their course already BUT the Tulips-well one anywho-opened up this morning. At times I get so tired and disgusted with c19 and politics I figured-what the hay!  Also lookin around my grass gonna need a trim sooner rather than later.  That Ride I enjoyed this past Sunday I could still see into the ravines and river bottoms thru the trees but another two or three weeks Will be seeing leaves on the trees. Life goes on and GOD has a plan for us.  I can and do see GODS hand every time I leave the house and Ride or drive. Take a minute folks and See and Enjoy What GOD is Still doing.  RIDE SAFE.

[Valkorado]

Great perspective  O2S!  The flowers and birds are still out there (well,  maybe not so much here yet) and are welcoming of our appreciation.  The sun is rising in the east and setting in the west.   God still possesses all the power and the glory.   Forever.

This nation will bounce back.  And we will learn some important lessons...

[John Schmidt]

Yes, Spring type weather isn't far away. Was chatting with my upstairs neighbor a couple days ago and saw two Robins hopping along on the snowless lawn. He told me that's a great indicator of warmer weather just around the corner, told him it felt more like a looong curve to me. I'm anxious to explore the area I'm now living in, expecially fishing holes. 

[Crackerborn]

I am normally already wading the coulees in the driftless area of the state for brownies and rainbows during the catch and release season. You are in walleye central with plenty of flowages but you will need to stay below the first locks on the Fox (and other) tributaries to Lake Michigan until the season opens. The rules to fish here require a full time attorney to translate. And the good Lord help you if you fish the Marquette river since you could be in Michigan five steps away from the shoreline.

[cookiedough]

John,  you got some great fishing up there near Green Bay area and Sturgeon Bay, etc.   If I lived up there I would invest in a bigger fishing boat since tried it once (never doing that again) with my 17 foot alumacraft and 40 hp mercury.  On a calm day, fine, but those winds kick up and damn near flipped it in the whitecaps. 

My biggest smallmouth bass was caught some 20+ years ago on the Ephraim dock fishing from shore with a minnow and plain jighead was 20 inches and 5lbs. exactly have it mounted on the wall.  Nowadays though,  5 lb. smallmouth are common up there has to be 6lbs. and more to be what they call a big one.

Walleyes up there are HUGE as well but have not encountered any up there yet was hoping for one off shore but no luck only a smallie.

[carolinarider09]

My place was, at one time in the past, agriculture land either for crops or cattle and an old barbed wire fence serves as a boundary line on the west side.  Its pretty much gone (the fence) but may large cedars mark its old location.  Just inside of this area, on the adjacent property is an old house.  Its still standing, sort of.  I think some animals use if for a "hideout".

A few days ago, as I was walking down the road by the old fence I say the flowers below.  I had never notice them before.  I did not plant them.  The only thing I can think of is that whoever lived in that house planted them at one time.  Picture does not do them justice.

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[Jess from VA]

I think that is crocus (iris family), which is a bulb, clump forming perennial flower.

Planted by someone, or else a big bird ate one and crapped there.



In Virginia, I am always amazed at the amount of purely wild dogwood and redbud that blooms in woods all over every spring.



After the bloom, all those scraggly trees just look like scrub in the woods the rest of the year.

[carolinarider09]

My wife just called them "Iris" flowers, but "crocus" might be the more accurate name.  I will keep that in mind. 

The blooming period was on a few days, maybe a week long and then they were gone.

[hubcapsc]

We also live on an old place, remnants of barbed wire at the border... so there's
stuff growing here that was brought here previously by others... about a week
and a half ago we noticed this:



We looked it up and decided it was Narcissus bulbocodium, the petticoat daffodil ...

-Mike "not like the other daffodils we see around here..."

[Jess from VA]

I like most all flowers.  But not these rare and exotic ones.  



I just dug about 20 of them out the other day.  Gifts from the neighbors upwind from me who like hundreds.

[da prez]

Dandelions are good eating and the flowers make great wine.

                                   da prez

[0leman]

Our Jonquils are about half way thru their flowering time.  DW has them spread out over most of the non grass portion of our yard.  It is sad first thing in the morning to see them bent over with a little snow on them, then by noon they are standing tall again.   They are the beginning of spring for us.   

Several of the different tree species are starting to break dormancy, the rest are smart enough to wait several more week as we tend to get temp in the teens for another couple of weeks. 

AND The lawn which the DW and I dethatched  the first part of March is greening up.  looks pretty good,  Mowing is a week or two away.

Just love spring.   Now to get in some more longer rides.   

[signart]

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[Jess from VA]

Dandelions are good eating and the flowers make great wine.

da prez

Good eating is a bit of an overstatement.  More like edible.  (I had the greens, once)

My soil is much to acidy to eat food from, I get bright red and yellow death cap mushrooms and fungus, and moss and lots of birdsh!t.    

And I don't do wine.  (My wine period included Boonsfarm (Apple, not Strawberry Hill), Ripple, Bali Hai, Gallo and Carlo Rossi; often wrapped in the obligatory plain paper bag)  (a while ago) (with only mild memory loss)

[old2soon]

Dandelions are good eating and the flowers make great wine.

da prez

Good eating is a bit of an overstatement.  More like edible.  (I had the greens, once)

My soil is much to acidy to eat food from, I get bright red and yellow death cap mushrooms and fungus, and moss and lots of birdsh!t.    

And I don't do wine.  (My wine period included Boonsfarm (Apple, not Strawberry Hill), Ripple, Bali Hai, Gallo and Carlo Rossi; often wrapped in the obligatory plain paper bag)  (a while ago) (with only mild memory loss)

Ripple and NO Thunderbird?  For shame for shame!  RIDE SAFE.