The blooming crocuses had closed. It was three thirty in the afternoon and they were no longer open. I will check on them tomorrow. I wonder when they will open, again, and then close for the balance of the sunlight. Maybe, they are open only in the height of the noon. We will see. If I remember, I will check on them several times tomorrow. I am curious about my questions. By the way, I did check the crocuses, again, and realized they were already in the shade so that answers my question: they only remain open in the sunlight.
Tags: crocuses only remain open in the sunlight, crocuses open and close, crocusus, flowers, gardening, shade, sunlight, the connection with the daylight
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The purple crocuses were blooming a week before spring. It was only a week ago I checked the plant and there were no buds. Today I spotted purple crocuses. The daffodils were still a week or two from blooming. It had turned cold again. It will warm up, again, in two days. A friend last year gave us some plants. This is the first time they bloomed in our garden.
Tags: crocusus, daffodils, daffodils still two weeks away, flowers, garden, purple crocuses, spring, spring now a week away
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There was a hawk I could not identify despite looking in three bird books. He was again spotted sitting on a wire kind of scrunched up dark brown over twelves inches tall. He was near a marsh again for the third time. Last week we spotted an immature bald eagle (no white head) and a red tailed hawk (identified by my wife) both flying high in the sky. Nearby the eagle there is an eagle nest high up the cliff which could only be seen when the trees had no leaves. This could be the third year it was there. We are still waiting for the first goldfinch to come to our thistle feeder. I don’t understand why they have not found it. I did put out fresh thistle. Maybe, they have not come because I did not clean the feeder. My faucet for outside was still turned off. My wife today saw her first crocuses going into town. Every day there will be more surprises. That is the wonder of spring.
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It was six-twenty PM and still light. This Sunday is daylight saving time and the clock gets moved forward an hour so it will be lighter longer. There is no more the gloom of winter time when it got dark much earlier. We are even having days in the fifties. Everything will start to turn green. Soon the daffodils will bloom as well as the tulips and crocuses. Again for the second straight year the winter did not kill the primrose. We had no extended freezes. Now spring officially is less than two weeks away.
Tags: crocusus, daffodils, daylight saving time, primrose, spring is around the corner, the primrose made it through the winter, tulips
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