What signs of the season are you noting?

[petra]

We may lose track of the days of the week but we can watch the season change.

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[petra]

The daffodils are finally past and the lilacs are coming on late. Just as well we were all inside for no-Lilac Sunday.

[minoanmiss]

The trees I can see from my window have bloomed their little white flowers.

[althea_valara]

It got warm enough at night that I opened my bedroom window to let the breeze in while I slept.

[desireearmfeldt]

Lilacs! Cherry blossoms! Finally some genuinely spring-like weather! Lengthening hours of sun. My strawberries are bustin' out all over with flowers. Cardinals in the trees. Maples fully leafed out. (I just swept/raked all the fallen maple gunk off the driveway and garage roof, where it was trying to evolve into new dirt.)

[petra]

Yay flowering trees in view!

[petra]

That's always a pleasant change.

[petra]

Oh, what splendid list of spring-marks, and then the one at the end -- yes, maples do drop more than their fair share of gunk.

[dine]

new leaves everywhere - and spring flowers almost everywhere (which I love); the days are noticeably longer, and while it's still raining lots (it's Oregon), it's no longer super-cold rains

[petra]

The days are definitely getting longer. We're still in phase 1.5 of spring flowers here.

[desireearmfeldt]

While the gunk itself is not cause for celebration, the fact that it's on the ground marks the end of high allergy season for me for a while. (Until the maples have their *second* go around of the summer.)

I should also add increasing humidity to the list of seasonal changes -- not that I look forward to 90 degrees / 90% humidity, but I do rejoice in the end of the dry air season.

[petra]

I agree that some humidity is heaps better than none, little though I look forward to Lots Of Humidity.

[angelofthenorth]

Seeing goldcrests and wrens and chaffinch, sedge warblers, kites, and all sorts from the window :)

[petra]

That is a lovely array of birds. Enjoy your variety!

[gibbles]

Thunderstorms .... I recently moved out of New York City proper, where for some reasons the storms seemed few and short, and my Midwestern heart is hoping that the storms will last longer here. I love dark gray skies and thunder and warm-weather rain. The kind of weather that makes you glad to be inside :)

[petra]

Huh, I have no idea why the thunderstorms seemed short in NYC. I know it never seems to rain for as long as it did When I Was A Kid, but I think a lot of that is how impatient I was as a child for things to be over.

[mesotablar]

Last weekend I had to pot up bulbs for hours because they all needed to be in the ground. I can see the shoots yet, but now my outside is covered in pots of dirt waiting for the irises and bluebells to make an appearance

[petra]

Irises and bluebells! That sounds lovely.