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I could post the view from my office, but the river is still frozen over, and I might start crying.
Spring in Uptown Albuquerque (there really is an area called Uptown) has passed already. Trees have bloomed and all that. On the east side of the mountains, it is just starting with very few blooms yet. There’s only 25 miles difference but there are 10,000 ft. mountains between to paly havoc with the weather.
Hang on a sec, Peter — surely there’s some airbrushing going on here in your son’s photo?
I mean, c’mon, after the campus events of the other day, isn’t there supposed to be a massive, Hammer-and-Sickle-embossed LGBT Rainbow flag flying from that spire?
Still waiting to learn how to load imagery into comments or posts. My Support request via Ricochet’s Help link of two weeks ago remains unanswered.
Eric Hines
More embarrassment, John: I’d thought we were all able to embed pictures now. Aargh. Thanks for going to the extra effort of posting a link. Which is, by the way, exquisite.
Eric, everyone, I have about a gallon of gooey egg on my face: The only reason I put up the pic that my son sent to me from Hanover yesterday was that I thought we’d finally made it easy for everyone to embed images. Wow. Was I ever wrong. I know you’re tired of Apologies 2.0, but I’m darned sorry.
How about an image os Dartmouth students taking over the president’s office while demanding gender neutral bathrooms among other things.
Here is what Charleston looks like today. Well maybe not. I can’t seem to be able to embed images on this site anyore.
Let’s see:
If you wrap the image URL with the <img src> tag, post the comment, then hit the edit button and repost it, at that point the embed succeeds.
(For the record, I didn’t take that photo, and it wasn’t taken today, but that’s still pretty much what the Ottawa River looks like at the moment.)
The bluebonnets are out in the Texas hill country.
John, that is a beautiful shot. Can you ID the plant?
Misthiocracy, you figured it out! I could kiss you!
Oh, well that makes a lot of sense. How come I didn’t think of that. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I am very close to being done with this site.
Well, figuring out the workaround may help them to track down the bug.
Our weeping redbud.
https://db.tt/7rsgKe2D
my Nexus doesn’t have a control key so I can’t paste the picture as I’m away from my home computer.
Not to be Debbie Downer, Peter, but that picture looks more like late winter than spring. You can’t even see buds on those distant trees! And we all know the reason you didn’t post one from California, where your lemon trees are probably in fruit and flower…
Here in New York, we also have patches of old snow and bare trees. The red maples are just sending forth their haze of red buds. Saturday I planted sugar snap peas in my garden, but there is still ice in some of the ponds around here.
When the snowdrops are blooming, I don’t really think it is spring yet. We need a carpet of yellow daffodills for that… Maybe next week I’ll have a picture for you…
I have a picture of the tulips blooming here in Holland, but even with Misthiocracy’s explanation, I can’t figure it out.
I haven’t stopped to take pictures of any of the 9,365,341 potholes I pick my way through every day.
Spring time in Saudi Arabia. Such as it is…
This hardy spider welcomes you to spring, Peter.
HERE IS THE WORK-AROUND TO END ALL WORK-AROUNDS:
Imagine, if you will, a photograph taken at night, backlit by the wallpack light on the outside of my work. The wall is cinder block, painted grey, and slightly out of focus. Because of the way I was holding the camera, the joints between the blocks are skewed at like maybe a thirty degree angle. The foreground is the blossoms on our tree–I think it’s like a flowering quince or something–a very slightly greenish-white color, and lovely green buds, just opening their lips to kiss the newly returnéd sun. In the space between a few clusters of these blossoms, a tiny spider, maybe the size of my pinky fingernail, has made a web. It’s one of the classic, pretty, round webs, and the strands glisten in the illumination of the security light: they are transluminated. The spider has, you know, eight legs and he’s a pale tan color. Just a little guy. I took it with my iPhone, and I digitally zoomed in, so there’s a little noise there like you usually see with these things.
You get the picture?
Looking out the window, I can see the first cracks in the ice on the river!
Maybe by next week I’ll see some liquid water?
After the warm weekend, including some pretty decent rain, I said to myself, “self, the river MUST be free of ice by the time you get into the office on Monday.”
Nope (although, there is more open water today):
Aaaaand, today it’s snowing.
Like, really, really hard.
Sigh…