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Showing posts with label dismal spring weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dismal spring weather. Show all posts

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Sunday Sketching -

Just some quickies today - to try to stay awake (bad night for sleeping...)

Instead of more sketching, I will leave you with some naturalistic shots from our medieval outing yesterday - showing the green and greyness of this chilly, damp, late-spring....





Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Vicarious Spring...


Since it's not happening *here*.... I'm going to post a bunch of pictures that I took in Butchart Gardens last month. And possibly (probably) gripe a bit.



We are having the overall coldest spring in 30 years.. Average temps are around 54 degrees, where normally the average is 68 degrees.

Whereas parts of the country are having record heat waves (including Amherst, MA, where I am headed in a few days), we are having the coldest first week of June since 1894....

(I might melt when I get there.... The sudden contrast in heat and humidity might do me in...)

Although the sunshine may do me good. The ongoing drizzly grey here is starting to become completely depressing. (Which I've already griped about on the food/garden blog I contribute to.)

In the meantime, I still have *loads* of things to do to prepare for my impending venture...

Plus help plan my daughter's 'sweet sixteen' birthday party-

-and my son's graduation from High School on Friday...

At least I won't have to worry too much about the yard and gardens while I'm gone - it's been terribly wet, and nothing is growing (including the weeds).

The chicken coop is finished - pending painting, and the chooks* will come 'home' on my return.

Gripe over. Here's hoping for sunshine and a bit of spring, before it officially becomes summer....
(* Term, courtesy of dinahmow)