Saturday was gorgeous. Bright, sunny, warm. I wore a short-sleeved shirt, drove around with my windows down, and treated my car to it’s first proper wash in months.
Right now - just 24 hours later - it’s snowing. And sticking.
Is that…legal? Can I demand a day off from work tomorrow? “Boss, it’s supposed to be spring but it’s snowing. You see why I simply can’t make it in today.”
Today we’ve had sunshine, rain, hail, sleet, thunder, and now snow. Pretty much par for the course here (Chicago). My scylla, croci, chinodoxa, daffodils and magnolia are all in bloom, although the magnolia looks none too happy.
My magnolia regularly buds three times before it blooms. I can see it from here, its little pink test buds shriveling in the snow. Damn thing thinks it’s in South Carolina. Sucker. And we’ve tried to coddle it along for all these years because my mother planted it, but common sense says we should rip it out and put in a Norway Spruce.
Down here Spring sprang months ago. We’re way past the flowers and well into trees coming out full. Just yesterday I too washed the car and planted the second group of color throughout all the beds.
Then, the wind started to blow. From the north. Tonite, they say it’ll be 36.
Sun is out and all the snow is melting. Except for I still see flurries, despite the sunshine.
The croci and daffs love this weather. The magnolias, not so much…
Tell me about it. I was just whining to SpouseO how I was hoping that this year would be different, that maybe this year spring would last longer than a week. Probably not. We’ll do the usual - go from 50 to 80 in a day or so.