{"id":25,"date":"2010-03-26T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-03-27T22:36:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T03:36:36","slug":"springtime-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/springtime-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Springtime – at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, Spring finally made it to North Texas, but Winter is doing its best to hang on for dear life – and failing miserably.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On the first day of Spring it snowed.\u00a0 Oh, not like the snow we got in February, but it did snow enough to stick, at least until the next afternoon.<\/strong> Unlike the previous snowfall, however, I kept my camera tucked safely away.\u00a0 This time the snow wasn’t a novelty, nor was it “pretty”, and while there was enough to stick and show, it just wasn’t awesome enough to really care about.\u00a0 We probably got a quarter of an inch, if that, so it wasn’t worth braving the cold and wind to get a photo.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And so, it’s Spring, for better or for worse.\u00a0 You can tell because the temperatures fluctuate between warm and cold.\u00a0 But, you
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Bee gathering pollen<\/p><\/div>can also tell because more birds are singing, the trees are budding out, flowers are blossoming and peeking out of their winter beds, and there are bees everywhere.
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I hope this Spring is a good one for North Texas.\u00a0 In recent years past we have seen our temperatures go from mild in early Spring to hot in mid Spring to down right late Summer like before Spring was done.\u00a0 And no rain.\u00a0 Well, okay, a little rain.\u00a0 But now we’re in an El Nino year and the prediction is that rain will continue at least through May with below-average temperatures.\u00a0 Hey, that will be nice for a change!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With Spring comes the Texas Bluebonnets and with all of the rain we’ve had since last Fall, this should be a great bluebonnet season.\u00a0 I can’t wait to get out with my camera and take a lot of bluebonnet photos, but it will be at least another two weeks before that happens because of our schedule, so I’ll just have to be patient.\u00a0 We almost always head to Ennis for the bluebonnet festival there and I suspect this year won’t be any different except that we might skip the craft fair and just go out hunting for good photo ops – along with a ton of other folks. \u00a0 We also usually take our dogs out for photos in the bluebonnets, but I don’t know if we’ll do that this year; we might, however, because we do have a new member of our family that we didn’t have at this time last year, and being a maltese, she’d look great among the bluebonnets – if she would hold still!\u00a0 The plans are up in the air, then, but bluebonnet photos will happen.<\/span>
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Well, Spring finally made it to North Texas, but Winter is doing its best to hang on for dear life – and failing miserably. On the first day of Spring it snowed.\u00a0 Oh, not like the snow we got in February, but it did snow enough to stick, at least until the next afternoon. Unlike the previous snowfall, however, I kept my camera tucked safely away.\u00a0 This time the snow wasn’t a novelty, nor was it “pretty”, and while there was enough to stick and show, it just wasn’t awesome enough to really care about.\u00a0 We probably got a quarter of an inch, if that, so it wasn’t worth braving the cold and wind to get a photo. And so, it’s Spring, for better or for worse.\u00a0 You can tell because the temperatures fluctuate between warm and cold.\u00a0 But, you can also tell because more birds are singing, the trees are budding out, flowers are blossoming and peeking out of their winter beds, and there are bees everywhere. I hope this Spring is a good one for North Texas.\u00a0 In recent years past we have seen our temperatures go from mild in early Spring to hot in mid Spring to down right late Summer like before Spring was done.\u00a0 And no rain.\u00a0 Well, okay, a little rain.\u00a0 But now we’re in an El Nino year and the prediction is that rain will continue at least through May with below-average temperatures.\u00a0 Hey, that will be nice for a change! With Spring Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y5uS-p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}