It's Spring

[shipperx]

It's spring! So photos of my backyard before the heat of summer slams in. :)

Comments

[deird1]

Pretty!

[empresspatti.livejournal.com]

LOVELY!! I am so envious. No matter how hard I work - the deer come in 30 herd hordes and eat everything down to the ground.

Your yard looks beautiful.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

No deer in my neighborhood, but I have about a bazillion birds. They sing. A lot. And loudly. (and crap on my swing. :)

I have a robin that has a nest in the climbing rose. And a cute little bluebird that I noticed for the first time last week.

[empresspatti.livejournal.com]

I love birds, they don't eat the hostas and other plants down to the mud.

You garden looks beautiful.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

It's beautiful! Meanwhile, it was so cold and windy and rainy here this morning that it felt like winter was coming back. Grrrr.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It's been a cool spring here as well. We just warm up a few weeks earlier.

Tomorrow we're expecting tonadoes... again.

[sourisvho.livejournal.com]

So pretty! And it looks so well-maintained. I really want to sit in that swing. :-)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Give it a couple of months, by June it looks mostly like a jungle and it's too hot to bother going outside and doing anything.

This time of year is the best for enjoying the swing, though. :)

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

It's gorgeous!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! I wish my yard looked like that! XD

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Mine only looks that way for about a week.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

The storm/tornado season had caused a dandelion rampage in our yard. It seems like just when we get everything tidy, another tornado rolls through to throw pinecones all over the blessed place. XD

[prophecyboy313.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a garden like that! It's beautiful! Your weather also seems much better... *hides from the rain*

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

We have thunderstorms and tornadoes predicted for tomorrow. :(

But it has been a very nice spring so far.

[prophecyboy313.livejournal.com]

I dwell up north in western Canada, so we never get tornadoes. I don't care to ever see one or experience one. What are they like?

Unfortunately, it rains/snows more often than not here. I'm all to familiar to the wet and cold...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Tonadoes are odd because they are such a localized phenomenon. You can be just a 1/2 mile from them and they can be nothing at all.

Usually you can tell it's 'tornado weather' because it's strangely warm. Most tornadoes are on a stormfront where it's warm on one side and much cooler on the other, so before they come it seems unseasonably warm, humid... and strangely still.

Usually that'a accompanied with a line of severe storms. (Basically, it flash-flooded this afternoon for a bit. And there seem to have been a ton of tornado warnings going off).

Violent thunderstorms are rather common so we don't tend to react all that much to them. The weathermen take over the TV tracking storms. And adding to the general OTT stuff that makes us careless, if there is a tornado warning anywhere in the county the tornado sirens go off, which only teaches us to ignore tonado sirens (which isn't a good thing) because the tornado could well be thirty miles away (nor not even exist).

When you take it seriously is when the light/sky turns green. It really does. There's this weird greenish hue to the light and then you know you really should take it seriously (They say it has to do with the severity of the stormwinds hitting foliage and releasing chlorophyl, but who really knows.). They're also frequently accompanied by hail. So if it's hailing, you also take it quite seriously.

Otherwise, unfortunately, most people just shrug off the sirens.

The only time a tornado ever came really close, it sounded a great deal like a freight train.

The weird thing is, a tornado can hit 1/2 mile away and all you experience are cloudy skies. There may not even be high winds. It can be that localized. Although most of the time you at least have a severe thunderstorm and experience that.

It's pretty much been going on all day. All I've had here was about a 1/2 hour flashflood, followed by some rain. But watching TV there have been some high winds and downed trees elsewhere.

[bluemage55.livejournal.com]

Show-off! It does look beautiful though. =P

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Have to show it off now. In a month it'll look like a jungle!

[deborahw37.livejournal.com]

Oh so lovely!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ms-scarletibis.livejournal.com]

A lovely backyard you have :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

OMG Thats wonderful! :D

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It's been a very nice spring.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Okay, I have serious backyard envy!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It'll only be that way for a week. Soon it'll be a bazillion degrees and wild and I'll envy you're nicely temperate summer.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Lovely borders and beautiful roses, you must enjoy sitting outside in these cooler days.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I have been enjoying it lately. The birds have been out and singing (I have a robin's nest in the roses).

I used to read all the time in the swing in the gazebo when I was growing up so when I bought the house, Dad made me the swing. :)

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Covets.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It'll be 98 degrees within a month, though.

[binsoup.livejournal.com]

just -- WOW!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

The roses always look nice this time of year. Pruning them two months ago was a bitch, though.

[caliente-uk.livejournal.com]

So beautiful! :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[usedtobeljs]

Lovely!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[mlgm.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

Meanwhile here in Wisconsin the grass is just barely turning green and the crocus have just opened.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It's been a cool spring here, so we're only a few weeks ahead, I think.

[hazel75.livejournal.com]

Wow, so pretty!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[rahirah]

Pretty! I love the climbing roses!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Don Juans.

They're the only hybrid tea roses that I have any more. I went through a war of attrition with the roses a few years ago, deciding only the non-fussy ones can survive. All the others are either antiques or shrub. But the Don Juans are very disease resistant and have a long bloom season without pampering, so they're allowed to stay.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Your roses are gorgeous :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

The big red ones are Don Juan hybrid tea. All the others are either antiques or shrub ones because I gave up on pampering anything in the yard several years ago. Anything that's left is still hear because they require little help.