# To me, nothing says Spring like... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850 "2008-03-10T17:24:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/21 "2008-03-10T18:23:45Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Can’t paint a warm breeze? That sounds like a dare to me. All I can think of at the moment is sheets on a clothesline, though. [/QUOTE] A field of long, green grass, gone to seed and undulating in unison. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/22 "2008-03-10T18:28:35Z")
daylight saving time ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/23 "2008-03-10T18:31:39Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] A field of long, green grass, gone to seed and undulating in unison. [/QUOTE] I thought of that. I sort of did that for my Autumn painting though. I like the idea of cherry blossoms. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/24 "2008-03-10T18:51:19Z")
The first crocus. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/25 "2008-03-10T18:52:46Z")
Pale sunny blue skies and a warm breeze. Snow melting on brownish-green grass, with stalks poking through. That wet, sodden, fresh look the trees and bushes have. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/26 "2008-03-10T18:53:14Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Well? I need ideas for a painting. [/QUOTE] Now that I’ve given a smart-ass answer, the serious response is: The sky is a bright blue with only a couple wisps of clouds high up and far away. Rolling green hills dotted with daisies, black-eyed susans and purple clover. Irish setter puppies frolic and gambol through the fields, chasing butterflies. That is what spring looks like in my mind. And, of course, lots of naked women. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/27 "2008-03-10T19:02:17Z")
Frogs croaking at night. Poor guys started croaking on the 50 degree nights we had early last week, then it was in the 20’s Saturday and Sunday night. Red buds on Maple Trees Robins Daffodils sprouting up out of the ground, we have a few blooming here Earthworms on the sidewalk on sunny days ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/28 "2008-03-10T19:07:05Z")
Potholes, pussywillows, motorcycles. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/29 "2008-03-10T19:16:15Z")
[QUOTE=Slypork] The sky is a bright blue with only a couple wisps of clouds high up and far away. Rolling green hills dotted with daisies, black-eyed susans and purple clover. Irish setter puppies frolic and gambol through the fields, chasing butterflies. [/QUOTE] That could totally work. Add in a little girl in a sun dress picking flowers, and it could be great. I’m going to think about this one. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/30 "2008-03-10T19:46:40Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] That could totally work. Add in a little girl in a sun dress picking flowers, and it could be great. I’m going to think about this one. [/QUOTE] White sundress, white straw hat with a pink ribbon. Her head is tilted so her face is in the shadow of the hat’s brim. Her arm is through the handle of a wicker basket. I still prefer the naked women but YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/31 "2008-03-10T19:47:09Z")
Any type of young. Puppies, kittens, calves, foals, ducklings, etc. New life = spring. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/32 "2008-03-10T19:52:55Z")
The first day you can wear shorts comfortably. I remember it well…about a month ago. (Don’t hate me because it was 80 here on February 10th!) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/33 "2008-03-10T20:07:32Z")
[QUOTE=Slypork] White sundress, white straw hat with a pink ribbon. Her head is tilted so her face is in the shadow of the hat’s brim. Her arm is through the handle of a wicker basket. [/QUOTE] I was thinking the hat. Nice touch with the ribbon and basket. If I take away the hat (or even if I don’t), I can paint the warm breeze with her hair. And for that matter, her dress as well. Pretty much [this](http://home.comcast.net/~nealtodd/TheGardener.jpg), only three months earlier. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/34 "2008-03-10T20:23:31Z")
All the world in in tune on a Spring afternoon as we’re poisoning pigeons in the park… ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/35 "2008-03-10T20:30:33Z")
A baby rabbit nibbling a dandelion amongst (ETA2: blooming, white and red) clover. ETA: Throw in a robin pulling up a worm if you want. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/36 "2008-03-10T20:33:31Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I was thinking the hat. Nice touch with the ribbon and basket. If I take away the hat (or even if I don’t), I can paint the warm breeze with her hair. And for that matter, her dress as well. Pretty much [this](http://home.comcast.net/~nealtodd/TheGardener.jpg), only three months earlier. [/QUOTE] Nice work! Can’t wait to see how it turns out. I can get the images in my head but somewhere between head and hand it turns into total crap. Someday I hope they invent a machine that will print a picture from the images you create in your imagination or that can play the music you compose in your head. Inside, I am an artistic, literary and musical genius. In real life I’m lucky I can play the radio.. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/37 "2008-03-10T20:41:09Z")
[QUOTE=Slypork] Nice work! Can’t wait to see how it turns out. [/QUOTE] Thanks! 🙂 For that, I had an actual model to work with. Toddlers make lousy models. I guess I’m lucky that every now and then I can paint totally from my imagination. But I often have to work it out as a drawing a bunch of times. What I end up with is often far different from my original vision. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/38 "2008-03-10T20:55:47Z")
Boing. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/39 "2008-03-10T21:06:11Z")
[QUOTE=ZebraShaSha] Boing. [/QUOTE] Tigger? ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850/40 "2008-03-10T21:08:45Z")
The pond behind my house coming alive with spring peepers every evening. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-me-nothing-says-spring-like/440850.md?page=3)