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[boxofdelights]

blossom?

No, snow!

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[brigantine]

But it's Maaaarrrch! O_o

Hey, are those tulip leaves sprouting up? We can't grow those well out here, at least not as perennial bulbs in the ground. The ground doesn't chill down and sleep for long enough, so we have to re-plant each year.

[boxofdelights]

March is usually the snowiest month here in Colorado, topping up our snowpack and keeping us out of drought. I'm just glad our previous weeks of 60 degree highs didn't convince the trees to leaf out early. Two of the six years I've lived in this house had spring blizzards that shattered a lot of trees by putting too much snow on deciduous leaves.

They are tulips, planted by the previous owner, so I don't know how old they are, and still flowering!

I was in California a few weeks ago, in Los Osos. Serious water shortage, and they're only just building a sewage treatment plant so they stop polluting their aquifer, but my friend can walk to the ocean from her house. I'd have stayed forever if she'd let me.