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Day 11: Nature Plays Some Cruel Jokes

My calendar tells me it is Spring.  It seems as though the sun is taking longer to set every day now.  We had a couple (teasing) days of beautiful 60+ degree weather last week.  There are even some flowers starting to poke up in our very dead looking garden. All signs point to Spring.

Except when I look at the forecast and I see snow.  Not cool, Mother Nature.  Not cool… They are calling for just a couple inches, but still… I’m so over snow.  I know that I need to remember that it is still March in New England, but after 80 inches of snow, I just want to put Winter in the past, at least for another 9 months.

Posted on March 23, 2011 at 4:41 pm in 365 Project   |  RSS feed You can skip to the end and leave a  reply.

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90 Comments to “Day 11: Nature Plays Some Cruel Jokes”

    
  1. didiwright
    March 23, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    I know exactly how you feel, but hang in there, it’ll come. It looks like we’re a little bit ahead of you, our spring flowers are already open and we’ve had the most wonderful sunny, warm day today. I’ll make sure to send the nice weather your way :)

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    • Kristen
      March 23, 2011 at 10:16 pm

      The nice weather you are sending our way must have scared the storm away :) Weather people changed their mind and said the storm isn’t gonna hit us. We’ll get a coating at most.

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  2. Kristen
    March 23, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    Yea, we are definitely a little behind. We had those couple of beautiful days which started everything along but then the temperatures dropped again back into the 30s and 40s and has put everything Spring back on hold.

    Some nice weather is definitely appreciated!

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  3. thepetalpusher
    March 23, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    Like the purple and green flower against the fluffy white dog. As for Spring–I think it’s going to skip again this year–it’ll be summer first.

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  4. enjoibeing
    March 24, 2011 at 10:35 am

    nice picture, the weather is finally getting better and the green is growing. cannot wait for spring/summer

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  5. oghello
    March 24, 2011 at 10:36 am

    I was new in the world of bloggers so please guidance yes

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  6. Mikalee Byerman
    March 24, 2011 at 10:43 am

    A friend of mine recently posted a picture of tulips poking through the ground — which was covered in three inches of snow. The caption: “It’s like getting spanked when you’re born.”

    Awesome…

    :)

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 10:50 am

      Haha Awesome caption! We ended up not getting the snow they were originally forcasting, however we did get a light dusting. That probably would have made a pretty picture but I didn’t take it this morning, and I’m sure it will be melted by the time I get home.

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  7. zeke & destroy
    March 24, 2011 at 10:46 am

    The ground is sprinkled with snow here, after two days of alternating snow flurries and pouring rain and I saw several clusters of crocuses, much like the ones in your photo that have been battered and bashed flat. I am ready for Spring proper to reign!
    The emergence of the flowers fills me with such energy and hope. Can’t really focus on the emotional effects of seeing them brutalized. SIgh.

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 10:52 am

      I agree. There is something about the emergence of flowers that can make you so happy, especially after a long Winter. I hope true Spring weather comes to you (and me!) soon!

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  8. fornormalstepfathers
    March 24, 2011 at 10:48 am

    It has been snowing here for two days. Then I talk to my friends from MO and FL and they complain about temperature dropping to 65°F. Those spoiled people from warmer states ;-)

    Was the dos enjoying those flowers or …fertilizing? :-) Mine would do the enjoying second…

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 10:55 am

      Yea, my parents have recently moved down to North Carolina and there is nothing they enjoy more than teasing me about their warm weather when I tell them about the snow storms and cold weather we are getting here in Boston. Cruel parents lol

      Bailey was just tolerating me for the photo and standing there. My 365 photo project is mainly focused around him so he still had to make an appearance in the photo, even if he wasn’t the main focus :)

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  9. glanzerr
    March 24, 2011 at 10:51 am

    Agreed completely. We got another 7″ yesterday in Minneapolis after a week of thawing, making this the 4th snowiest winter in state history. I wrote about it as well. http://glanzer.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/we-have-no-spring-or-fall-here/

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 10:54 am

      Ugh, Mother Nature should know that once the official day of Spring comes, she needs to stop pounding us with snow. Boston has hit the record list of snowiest winters this year but I’m not quite sure where we ended up. I’ll be sure to check our your blog when I’m home from work :)

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  10. Katie Gou
    March 24, 2011 at 10:57 am

    We had some herrendous snow and sleet over the past few weeks but we finally have sunshine and t shirt weather! Rest assured, my friend, your sunshine will come!

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 10:58 am

      I can’t wait until t-shirt weather, or I would love even just hoodie weather. I always look forward to being able to retire my winter jacket to the closet. Enjoy your warmth! Hopefully it will come here soon!

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  11. fdcarlso
    March 24, 2011 at 10:58 am

    I’m with you there! We here in Iowa have the same thing going on. The temps dropped back down to the mid forties and there is sleet in our future. A few years ago the same thing happened: Daffodils, crocuses and tulips all started coming up like mad, like whole plants and flowers and everything, then it froze and we had piles of grey-green mush everywhere for the rest of the season. I’ve got such itchy fingers to get out and plant my veggies I just can’t contain myself!

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  12. Fox@n
    March 24, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Yeah snow man came back and hit us new yorkers hard i dont think springs gonna come soon. Great post

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 11:19 am

      Yea, I am from New Jersey and have a lot of friends in New York. I heard about all the thunder hail that you guys were getting down there yesterday. Thanks for visiting and for subscribing as well :)

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  13. Michelle
    March 24, 2011 at 11:41 am

    I’m for nj too and boy am I enjoying that we’ve had 3 delayed openings this week! I get to go to work at 10 AM so I’m really not complaining. Before we know it, it will be hot and humid and we’ll be wishing it was snowing so just enjoy the last beautiful snow fall while it lasts!

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 11:43 am

      The delayed openings are always nice, especially since you don’t need to make those days up like you would a snow day. Even though I will probably complain about the heat in the dead of summer, I don’t think I will ever be wishing for more snow anytime soon. We just got too much this Winter.

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  14. Desiree
    March 24, 2011 at 11:51 am

    patience is a virtue! give it time, spring will come.

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  15. leahsinger
    March 24, 2011 at 11:57 am

    I love this photo. But Bailey doesn’t look too thrilled. Love your blog. I have my own animal kingdom, so I can relate to much of what you write. Congrats on being freshly pressed. I’ll be back soon.

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 12:03 pm

      My original vision for this photo was to have him interacting with the new flowers in some way… sniffing them or something. He didn’t quite have the same vision so I settled for him to just be in the frame standing near them. I’m still pleased with how the photo came out.

      I’m so excited to have been freshly pressed. It was such a surprise (as I have only had my blog for less than 2 weeks now). Thanks for subscribing and as I said before, I will definitely be checking out your blog later tonight when I am home :)

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  16. myvirtualflower
    March 24, 2011 at 11:58 am

    I know! I can’t wait for the flowers to bloom! It completely rejuvenates me!

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 12:04 pm

      I completely agree. By the end of winter, I am so drained creativity wise. Everything is just so dull and and boring and lifeless, which may appeal to some people, but not me. Once colors start appearing outside again, it makes all the difference in my mood.

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  18. Ava Aston's Muckery
    March 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    Yes I also need to sit down and have a face to face chat with Mother Nature, Old Man Winter and their adopted step child they call Punxsutawney Phil.

    Blessings,

    Ava
    xox

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  19. Sassy lady Haidee
    March 24, 2011 at 1:07 pm

    Wow, it seems surreal to be reading about winter and snow when we the make-up is literally melting off our faces here in South Africa…in fact, there really is no point in wearing make-up, at all! It’s funny how you are hopeful for a bit of Spring when we are all pining here for a cool breeze. As the year races on I wake up hopeful there will be signs of the weather starting to cool when really it seems each day is hotter than the next…dont know what’s going on! Seriously, I am so over this humidity, the doors in my home dont even fit in their frames they swell up so much! Ridiculous. Would do anything for a bit of snow right now;)

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 1:10 pm

      I’m not quite jealous of your heat and humidity, however how about you give us a little bit of your warmth and we’ll give you a little but of our coldness and then we’ll both be at nice happy mediums? If only it were that easy!

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  20. sarahnsh
    March 24, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    It was so gorgeous last week where I live and now it’s cold and snowing this week. I feel your pain! Hopefully winter will kick the bucket soon and go away for good.

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  21. wittybizgal
    March 24, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    I lived out West for years and this sort of thing really depressed me. My last stop on my tour of the Western U.S. was Carson City, Nevada, where we lived for 5 years. Having grown up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, it never ceased to amaze me that the West seems to have no real defined seasons. They think they do, but they don’t. In Carson City, as well as Klamath Falls, Oregon where we lived for a few years, there never was any Spring…it went from Winter to Summer, do not pass go, do not feel Spring in the air. Period. It also snowed on Easter–almost every year. And if it wasn’t snowing, it was bitter cold and gloomy. Now I live in Florida and while we still have some sort of Winter, actually IN Winter, it is sooooo nice right now and I am so grateful!

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  22. Shreya
    March 24, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    Can’t agree more! I am sick and tired of mounds and mounds of dirty snow that refuses to melt.

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  23. notesfromrumbleycottage
    March 24, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    Maybe it is me but the wind today didn’t seem to have quite the razor’s edge bite it would have a month ago.

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  24. Kim
    March 24, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    Crap! Poor you! Snow! That’s not springsy at all!

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  25. Janae's Fallgirl Shepherd
    March 24, 2011 at 2:43 pm

    Congrads on bein’ freshly pressed! I enjoyed checking out your blog, what a blessing your are with the critters,dogs are great to me.even though they can have us wrapped aroung their paw. Talk about nature’s ways just a month ago we were freezing under 2′ of snow in the NW, now with some nice sunny days and temps in the 60+ it’s like a heat wave!

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  26. Evie Garone
    March 24, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    I saw the snow on the news and I feel for you people in the NE. What a shame, hang in there, it’ll break before you know it. Sorry to rub it in, but that’s why I moved to AZ, I just couldn’t take that unpredictability anymore…the heat and sunshine here is much more acceptable to me, though, the 115 degree summers can get to a person, so I guess nowhere is perfect! Congrats on being FP’d!

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 3:49 pm

      Thanks! Yea, I would love to live somewhere where the winters weren’t bad, but I could not deal with 115 degree weather. I think I would prefer the cold over that. I just want to live somewhere where it is 70 degrees all year round? Is that too much to ask? ;)

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  27. jlheuer
    March 24, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    Congrats on being FP. I look longingly at your crocuses. We got 17.8 inches of snow Tues-Weds. On Monday flowers were poking up in some yards ( not mine), now they are buried.

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  28. wordsbyirma
    March 24, 2011 at 4:48 pm

    We have a saying in Finland: Winter comes on the time, Summer comes when it has time:) I know how you feel, it snowed this morning on L.I/N.Y, but it was even worse in Finland! Have fun.

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  29. katblogger
    March 24, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    I know. I’m getting some snow this weekend too, while I was running around in capris on Monday. Not cool, Mother Nature, not cool.

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  30. whatsaysyou
    March 24, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    Awesome picture and yes, spring is coming soon.

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  31. She's a Maineiac
    March 24, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    It snowed here today. The big fluffy flakes. It was very pretty. Especially since most of it melted right away! sigh…

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  32. TweeCo
    March 24, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    such a sweet and adorable picture! I love it.

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  33. Mandy
    March 24, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    Two days ago us “Michiganders” were under a winter storm advisory. The kiddies had yet another snow day. My car was covered in 2 inches of pure ice.

    Surely Spring is on its way. It has to be.

    Also, Im going to throw this out there..I don’t know if anyone remembers the Rainbow Bright movie, when the little creatures were hypnotized and knitting a cover over the crystal planet that provided warmth and sunlight. It was preventing spring from coming… I feel like Im in that movie right now.

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  34. lifewith4cats
    March 24, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    wowzers what a lot of comments! Congrats to you! Now you really have to get out that agility equipment and take lots of pics.
    You had the same snow as I since I am on the border of Mass. It was beutifull green and I was full of spring energy on friday. I wake up on saturday and all the yard again looks like a winter wonderland. I said UGG!! and went back to bed to hibernate till monday.

    Bailley being part poodle must love to scamper in it though.

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 8:14 pm

      I know! It’s kinda crazy. I can’t peel myself away from wordpress because they keep coming in. I’m enjoying it now because the fame will fade tomorrow ;)

      Bailey actually HATES the snow and the cold. He is a little wuss. Even though he has a lot of hair, his coat is still a single coat, rather than a thick double coat. He gets cold pretty easily when out in the snow. He loved it as a puppy but once he got older, he was like “Meh, I’d rather be inside where its warm and cozy.”

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  35. lifewith4cats
    March 24, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    Oh gosh.. please correct my spelling, that looks really bad. I didnt proofread and typed too fast. *Beautifull*

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  36. nesha
    March 24, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    This is a very pretty picture. I just love flowers. That is I love looking at them, but when it comes to planting them plants and I don’t get along. Congrats on being Freshly Pressed !

    http://anubianqueen.wordpress.com

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    • Kristen
      March 24, 2011 at 8:32 pm

      Thanks :) I’m the same way… I don’t garden. Our upstairs neighbor does most of the gardening in our yard. I just enjoy them and occasionally take pictures.

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  37. lifewith4cats
    March 24, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Then Bailley is a dog after my own heart. I dislike boring lifeless white everywhere so much, that last summer I built a roofed awning over my birdfeeding station. I painted the posts barn red and the roof bright lilac. I wanted to be able to see pretty collors especially in winter. But now that the winter came. I have to say.. the bird feeder station really stands out in an obnoxious way. It cheers me and irks me all at the same time.

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  38. rtcrita
    March 24, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    Couldn’t agree with you more. Two days ago we were in capris and flip-flops with 80 degree weather. Today, it’s currently 49 degrees with a low of 30 last night. Blankets or shorts? We never know here in Kansas!

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  39. merediiith
    March 24, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    ohio is the same way right now, but the winter can only make us appreciate the summer that much more when it finally comes. before you know it we’ll be swimming… eating (veggie) burgers off the grill… watching fireflyyys… wearing flip flops… & loving life.

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  40. Grumpa Joe
    March 24, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    The picture in your post could have been taken from my window in Frankfort, Illinois. Oh how we w patiently await the joys of sunny warmth, and warm gentle showers.

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  41. Hilary
    March 25, 2011 at 12:07 am

    those little paws are adorable!

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  42. makingup3000
    March 25, 2011 at 12:29 am

    Me…I can hardly wait till summer. I’m tired of the rain and cold!!

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  43. mybakingempire
    March 25, 2011 at 1:07 am

    Los Angeles is going through a similar bi-polar season. We went from 80º to pouring, freezing rain this past week. Can’t it just be nice out already?

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  44. best watches in 2010
    March 25, 2011 at 2:28 am

    Good,i like spring.spring is beauitiful.

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  46. I Made You A Mixtape
    March 25, 2011 at 4:03 am

    New snow kills off the old snow in the spring… (old Scandinavian saying)….lol. So it may actually hasten the coming of spring. But after months and months of the white stuff… you just want some warm sunshine…like now! lol.

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  47. Sandra
    March 25, 2011 at 8:27 am

    Grew up in Michigan, spent 19 years in Fort Wayne, IN, slid down I-75 to Tampa, FL over 20 years ago…and haven’t been back. Always loved seeing the crocuses. . .knowing the daffodilsl tulips, and forsythia were soon to follow.Your writing is almost poetry.
    One thing I discovered after I moved…for all those years, I had SAD (seasonal affective disorder). That’s the depression you get when you don’t get enough sunlight. Still up north? Vitamin D helps. Down here, I know if I start getting lethargic, it’s time to go do some work outside in the garden.
    I read an interesting book last week, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Year Round Gardening, and yes, it does tell how to keep the harvest coming 24/7/365, no matter where you live. If I were still up north, I’d be experimenting. [I LOVE beating the odds.]

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    • Kristen
      March 25, 2011 at 8:40 am

      Thank you for your comment. I can’t wait for the other flowers to start popping up. If I was a gardener I would check out that book but I’m not. lol I just enjoy the flowers and let others take care of them. It sounds so lazy when I say that, but alas it’s true.

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  48. dennyding
    March 25, 2011 at 9:36 am

    This is my first comments in this website,I’m from china,couldn’t understand your talking very well,but I’m trying to,I will keep paying attention to your articles,and hope you help me in English~Thanks

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  49. Julio Eiffelt R R
    March 28, 2011 at 3:08 am

    well, in indonesia, we will never see snow. only 2 types of weather. spring n rain (sometime ice rock in rain weather). forecating just analize earth daily activities and has been taken for many years and will be translated into earth weather daily in present, eventually as we see today.

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  50. An Embarrassment of Freedom
    April 4, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    Charming that so many around the world comment on the changes in seasons and love the tender new flowers of spring so much. Last fall I planted many spring flowering bulbs as atribute to my Mom and as she has since passed away I am longing to see them bloom, especially the hyacinths, her favourite, We had a big thunderstorm last night and my poor old dog Holly was so nervous I had to tend to her through the night, She is sleeping it off now.

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