spring is coming!

[mmegaera]

It is the first of February, and astronomical spring is six weeks away.  However, it is starting to look like spring at my house, and here’s the proof.

First, indoors, on my kitchen windowsill.  My local grocery store sells pots of sprouting forced bulbs this time of year, and they’re so inexpensive I can’t resist.  I’ll find a corner of ground to tuck them into once it warms up a bit.

Miniature daffodils, already a bit past their prime but still pretty.

Reticulata iris.

And outside.  Please forgive the weeds.  I still haven’t cleaned up the garden yet.  Soon.

The primroses I fell flat on my front porch buying last week. They’re a bit bedraggled because of all the rain we’ve been having, but they’re awfully cheerful next to my front door.

Species crocus struggling up through last year’s dead stalks by my front door.

Hellebores blooming by my back door. There’s also a hardy cyclamen in the lower righthand corner.

Oh, and something unrelated to plants, but definitely related to the weather:  yet another needlework experiment.  Someone posted on Facebook back in early January how they were going to make an afghan by crocheting one row every day.  The color would be determined by the day’s high temperature.  So I thought I would do it, too.  Anyway, here’s the yarn:

Purple (below 45dF/7dC), blue (46-55dF/7-13dC), green (56-65dF/13-18dC), yellow (66-75dF-18-24dC), orange (76-85dF/24-29dC), and red (above 85dF/29dC). The green is much brighter than it shows in the photo, the purple isn’t quite that light, and the red is more cherry than the tomato it looks like.

And here’s the afghan at the end of the first month:

The first of January’s at the bottom.  At the rate things are going, it’s going to be about 12 feet long by the end of December. Oh, well…

 

Mirrored from M.M. Justus -- adventures in the supernatural Old West.

Comments

[thnidu]

This is looking very weird on Dreamwidth. No pictures at all, and lots of paragraphs are repeated... Which, when I go to LiveJournal, turns out to be because these are the captions of the pictures, apparently getting displayed once in lieu of the pictures themselves and immediately afterwards as the captions. This is on my smartphone.

Hmm. I wonder whether this is because LiveJournal lets you post pictures directly from your computer, including them in the post, but Dreamwidth will only accept URLs, so you have to upload the pictures somewhere and then give Dreamwidth the URL. I generally post on Dreamwidth with an automatic reblog to LiveJournal, and I get around this issue by writing the post on LiveJournal, or at least uploading the pictures into it, but not saving the post there. Instead, I copy the HTML out of the LiveJournal comment posting window and paste it into Dreamwidth, because as soon as I upload the picture LiveJournal stores it and users its LiveJournal URL in the post. Then I finish writing the post on Dreamwidth , save it, go back to LiveJournal and check it there, and delete the never-finished and never-saved post on LJ.

[mmegaera]

I'm sorry it's not working for you. I don't have a smartphone, so I have no way of checking that it works on smartphones. Also? I'm wondering if it's a your particular smartphone thing, because no one else has ever complained about this sort of thing to me. I do apologize. I do my crossposting with a WordPress plugin, and if I didn't, I probably wouldn't bother to cross-post manually.

[thnidu]

Probably is. This is the 2nd time I've had this issue. Oh well.