Here in Boston, we’ve been enjoying several days of 60 degrees and sunny, and every time I step outside, I’m absolutely elated. I LOVE spring. I will never move south again (I lived in Baltimore for four years) because there is absolutely nothing that can beat the feeling of coming out of a brutal winter to a warm, sunny spring day with the smell of fresh earth on the breeze.
I agree, yay Spring! Here in Madison we’ve had 4 or 5 days of serious spring weather (mid-60s/low-70s) and this morning I noticed that the backyard has turned green again.
In fact, I’ll be going down to the park to sit and play in the sunlight by the lake in a while.
I agree with the Baltimore thing too - after a brutal northern winter, the first signs of spring are heavenly, and once it gets into full swing, it’s like you’ve found Nirvana.
All winter, I’m wearing black or navy tights – today, I’m wearing off-white tights with a flowery dress.
Ya know, it’s time to start shaving my legs again. :smack:
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You live in Madison? I’m jealous. I grew up in Milwaukee, and I love Madison. I considered moving there after college, but it didn’t seem like the best place to be job-hunting straight out of school.
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My irises are coming up! Yay!! We planted them only last spring – maybe I’ll get lucky and get a bloom or two!
I’ve also been doing my walking outside (in shorts and tank top) instead of on a treadmill at the gym.
Yay spring!!
Only for another week - then we move to a giant farmhouse in Fitchburg in the middle of the country. With room for my recording studio, a rehearsal space, and a former pottery studio off the kitchen for my wife’s natural soap and lotion company.
But we’ll still only be 10 minutes from downtown. You can see suburbia from the top floor of the house, but only while the corn hasn’t come up.
Madison’s a great place to live - coming from B’more it was a real eye-opener. Everything’s laid back and liberal, and soooo much cleaner.
If I were back in New Jersey, I, too, would be exulting with all of you. Santa Fe has an average of 300 sunny days a year, so, while it’s getting warmer, there’s no huge change.
Also, if I were back at home in NJ, I’d be choking from allergies, caused by pretty much everything, especially freshly-mowed grass. Not as bad, out here.
On the other hand, there is exactly one big leafy tree here. There are two patches of grass - one with said big leafy tree, and the other is the soccer field. All of us non-native-to-the-desert folks are squabbling for best sprawling positions on the aptly-named Grassy Knoll.
(I do want to know what I am allergic to here - cactus pollen? Something is making me all sneezy and my contact lenses unhappy…)
(and I miss the massive 100+ year-old oak tree in my backyard at home)
Well, in this part of the world I’m rejoicing at the onset of autumn, since it means the return of the cooler weather. It will be nice to be able to sleep properly at night. Summer is just too long and too hot.
LOL Anything’s cleaner than Baltimore! :rolleyes:
It’s gorgeous out today, sunny and cool and shiny and refreshing, and it’s beautiful, and I’m done all my classes–no more school!
Woohoo for spring! bounces around
If it makes you feel any better, we’ve had snow, cold, slush, hail, more snow, one nice day, rain, rain, rain, two 50-degree days, rain, rain, rain, flooding, rain, two 75-degree days, and now more rain. It’s either rain, or summer. I was kind of hoping to have a little bit of spring, but I don’t think it’ll happen. 
le sigh I hate summer.
As to the OP, I miss Boston so much just because that first spring day after a suckfest winter is so incredibly wonderful. 
It’s about 50 here in Lowell today, but I still love it. I AM NOT WEARING ANYTHING OTHER THAN FLIP-FLOPS (until I go to work tonight, but you know).