We were hit by a snowstorm this past weekend, but it’s now melting away fast. We can’t get too excited yet, because apparently another storm is supposed to brush by us this week.
We’ve had a few flowering plants that brave the whole winter, and this what they look like right now.
Here’s what they looked like last summer.
Maybe when they stop looking so skeletal and dead, the spiders will come back.
We often get the bottom ends of these storm fronts after they cross the Gulf of Mexico so the severity tapers a bit. There may have been a tornado warning north of Tampa yesterday but the storms fizzled when they neared my area. Nothing like the outbreak of tornados other states endured. Scarier considering all the stupid cuts to weather services.
Many temperate perennial herbs have erect annual stalks that persist long after death in the winter, dispersing seeds. New stalks will sprout from the underground rhizome in the spring. In Finland these stalks are officially called “winter-stickers-out”. I wonder if there’s an equivalent English term?
Thankfully, the only “snow” we’re getting are snowdrop flowers rather than snowfall.
Three days to go.
“Winter ends on Spring Equinox, which falls this year on Thursday, March 20.”
Larpar @ 4
Careful, you will jinx it!
Winter has now moved into the phase where the sun rises earlier than ten and sets later than half past two (typical for December). So even if spring warmth arrives a bit later I can endure it.