Headed toward spring

[Len Philpot]

No, make that “spring is here”, but winter may not be done yet. I have to believe there’s at least one more cool bit coming. Or maybe not. I’d love an early / long spring, but I fear we’re headed instead toward an early, long and hot summer ...for six months.

At any rate, the water lilies are showing up, even if nothing else has popped up green on the lake (although trees are budding elsewhere).

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Len, we never had winter this year here in the PNW.

 

[Len Philpot]

It's been above 80F (27C) probably maybe 10 days off and on lately. It's typically late early / mid May when that happens. We had some nighttime lows in January in the mid teens F (-9C) but it wasn't too often nor too long. I remember in the mid 1990s going to work on April 1st with everyone complaining about the "April Fools joke" outside: It was sleeting! I don't want that, either.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

When I lived in Huntsville, AL I remember running our AC from March to November.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

No, make that “spring is here”, but winter may not be done yet. I have to believe there’s at least one more cool bit coming. Or maybe not. I’d love an early / long spring, but I fear we’re headed instead toward an early, long and hot summer ...for six months.

At any rate, the water lilies are showing up, even if nothing else has popped up green on the lake (although trees are budding elsewhere).

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Wonderful photo. I like how the three colours – blue, orange and green – divide the image into three parallel horizontal bands and how the perfect spacing between the tree trunks defines a vertical rhythm, a choreography. In addition, we also have the third dimension with the tree in the foreground, which powerfully reminds us of the depth of the space in which we are immersed. Great photo, @Len Philpot!

 

[Len Philpot]

Thank you.

 

[Pete Askew]

It does have a freshness to it. And I like the composition very much, Len.

 

[Beth Anthony]

beautiful bald cypress trees.

we had winter enough for everyone. you shoulda joined the snow party on the east coast. it just hit uncomfortably warm yesterday (upper 60s with 100% humidity) and is threatening to go up to 80 degrees next week before plummeting back down to below freezing. anyone have any left over bipolar meds for mother nature?

 

[Len Philpot]

beautiful bald cypress trees.

we had winter enough for everyone. you shoulda joined the snow party on the east coast. it just hit uncomfortably warm yesterday (upper 60s with 100% humidity) and is threatening to go up to 80 degrees next week before plummeting back down to below freezing. anyone have any left over bipolar meds for mother nature?

Get rid of the snow and extreme cold and that sounds like the schizophrenic Louisiana weather! However, 60 degrees (regardless of humidity) is very comfortable for us. During the summer (typically July - August) it'll rarely drop below 80 at night, with humidity at dawn usually 95% - 100%. By late afternoon, the humidity will maybe drop to 50% but by / before then the temperature will be 90 - 100+. In fact, 90 degrees is considered a moderate summer temperature.

 

[Len Philpot]

It does have a freshness to it. And I like the composition very much, Len.

Thanks! A challenge was to bring the colors out as I saw them in the bright harsh sunlight, but hopefully without being too bright and harsh.

 

[Beth Anthony]

Get rid of the snow and extreme cold and that sounds like the schizophrenic Louisiana weather! However, 60 degrees (regardless of humidity) is very comfortable for us. During the summer (typically July - August) it'll rarely drop below 80 at night, with humidity at dawn usually 95% - 100%. By late afternoon, the humidity will maybe drop to 50% but by / before then the temperature will be 90 - 100+. In fact, 90 degrees is considered a moderate summer temperature.

60s is uncomfortable in march when it should still be in the 40s. i'd be ecstatic with 60s as the high in the summer. i walked outside in a hoodie and started sweating. we usually have a few 100/100 days each summer. that's just straight up miserable.

 

[Len Philpot]

we usually have a few 100/100 days each summer. that's just straight up miserable.

In the summer of 2023 we had about two+ weeks in August of 104 or so. That was miserable. At least the humidity was down a little so it was a drier heat ... You know, like a convection oven!