# Spring is coming!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496 "2008-02-13T20:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/1 "2008-02-13T20:34:33Z")
Outside, It was sunny, warm, and delightful this morn’. Spring is almost here. It will snow again, It will be cold, miserable. But it will not last. Winter is fading and I take comfort in it. Spring is almost here. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/2 "2008-02-13T20:58:23Z")
I’m not gonna write any haikus, but spring is most certainly NOT almost here, seeing as we just got a nice little dumping of snow, we expect more through to next week, and the temperatures are dropping into the minus-teens. The past two days have been quite cold, about -20, or -25C… this morning I took a nice hot shower but by the time the water hit my feet, it was cold! I do wish spring would start showing up, but I have the feeling it will be well into March before we get much sign of it. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/3 "2008-02-13T21:19:12Z")
I don’t know where you are, but winter is just starting to get good around here. The ski season is in full swing. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/4 "2008-02-13T22:13:51Z")
The OP obviously doesn’t live in Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/5 "2008-02-13T22:34:25Z")
Yep almost here, I’m getting sick and tired of days in the 70’s and nights in the 60’s. FL ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/6 "2008-02-14T14:03:40Z")
[QUOTE=Lanzy] Yep almost here, I’m getting sick and tired of days in the 70’s and nights in the 60’s. FL [/QUOTE] 😛😛😛😛 I can’t wait for Spring in Boston!! The Dutch tulips are out in the stores–can’t be long…right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/7 "2008-02-14T14:13:32Z")
I saw a couple mourning doves mate the other day. Plus, yesterday was sunny and warm and today a winter storm is on the way. That’s proof it’s spring. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/8 "2008-02-14T14:16:56Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] The OP obviously doesn’t live in Minnesota. [/QUOTE] Or Michigan. Spring is no where near us-- it’s coming, of course, but it’s no where near, ---
**Author:** ![TupeloHoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@TupeloHoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TupeloHoney)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/9 "2008-02-14T15:48:29Z")
I think winter just hit where I am too - VA. Not that it’s as cold as the midwest or the northeast but it finally got in the low 20s and teens. I was beginning to think winter would skip us all together but I think it was just late. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/10 "2008-02-14T16:32:32Z")
As predicted, it is snowing this morning. Most of you missed the point of my little poem: It is winter, but not for long. Sometimes it is hard to see that through your foggy breath, but to remind us, nature gives us a nice sunny day. A glimpse of things to come. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/11 "2008-02-14T16:41:34Z")
I planted three Norfolk Pines last weekend, finished trimming a couple of Live Oaks and all the Crepe Myrtle. The Silver Maple is covered with pinkish purple blooms, as are the Lorapetulum, so the Redbuds and Mountain Laurels can’t be far behind. River Birch are going green as we speak and blooms are appearing on the Azaleas. I’ll fertilize trees and shrubs this weekend and weed-n-feed the yard. I took the day off yesterday and got a little sunburned reading the paper on the patio. Spring is happenin’ here. Don’t think I’d do so well in a long-winter state or province. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spring-is-coming/437496/12 "2008-02-14T17:08:27Z")
[QUOTE=CoG888] As predicted, it is snowing this morning. Most of you missed the point of my little poem: It is winter, but not for long. Sometimes it is hard to see that through your foggy breath, but to remind us, nature gives us a nice sunny day. A glimpse of things to come. [/QUOTE] I think the point many of us are making is that we have still many months of winter coming. A sunny winter day is just that, a sunny winter day.