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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 25, 2015 - 10:08am PT
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Nursing a calf strain and a bit out of commission. Makes you open your eyes to what's right there at the house, eh?
Click on 'em and view 'em large...
Daffodills be poppin' up:
Maple gettin' goin'
Weeping cherry not feelin' sad at all
Once more for the weeping cherry, 'cause it's only like this for a few days
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Apr 25, 2015 - 10:18am PT
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Our daffodils were over & done about 3 weeks ago.
Not much of a winter in these parts...spring arrived waaaaay too early.
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rincon
climber
Coarsegold
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Apr 25, 2015 - 10:22am PT
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Our daffodils were over & done about 3 weeks ago.
Yep, this pic was from February...
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2015 - 05:22am PT
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No love for your own backyard spring harbringers?
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David Lewis
Trad climber
North Conway,New Hampshire
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Apr 27, 2015 - 05:34am PT
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Just starting to see a glimpse of Spring here in NH, North Conway area. No buds on the trees and the tips of flower plants just starting to show.
This is why it is better to climb at the Gunks in early Spring than at Cathedral.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2015 - 09:05pm PT
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More spring has sprung:
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Gorgeous.
A camera and a backyard are a combination full of possibilities.
I learned yesterday that naturalists have an -ology of harbingers: phenology.
From Mike Ritcey on CBC Radio
"I know I shouldn't start watching for the nighthawks in Kamloops until the cactus flowers have just opened and that the Harlequin should be seen just as the Tranquille River turns muddy chocolate brown with spring runoff."
"When the leaves of the cottonwood trees along the north Thompson river are about the size of a loonie the black bears should be all out of hibernation, so even though I'm stuck in the city going back and forth to work every day, I keep an eye on those trees and when they are flushed to that point I know it's time to grab my video camera and go up in the hills and look for black bears."
"The timing in nature can be painted with very broad strokes but what makes it so interesting are the local variations. What may hold true, say, for birds returning relative to a plant blooming may apply in one area but be completely wrong in another."
In Zion the cottonwoods are harbingers of humans coming out of hibernation.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2015 - 08:16am PT
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Son of Spring...
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