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the museum
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Rapid City, SD
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Apr 25, 2008 - 09:46am PT
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Not yet.. April 25, 2008.. freezing rain, 24oF, any early plants are frozen now.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Apr 25, 2008 - 10:45am PT
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Museum, that view of yours never seems to get better!
But the rest of you are doing just fine -- nice photos, all.
Blue sky, green pines, red buds on the maples outside my window this morning. A huge tom turkey
waddled across the road as I drove home the other day. I hear the black bears are roaming about
too, but I haven't seen them yet.
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cowpoke
climber
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Apr 27, 2008 - 01:37pm PT
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It's starting to look like spring in Franconia Notch, NH.
Yesterday, there were just a few patches of snow left,
cute little streams running down the cliffs,
and the occasional leaf bud.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 27, 2008 - 08:56pm PT
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looking good here today, was 90ºF on our patio
here are some trips over the last month...
http://home.comcast.net/~e.hartouni/dap-botany.html
the second two are in need of captions... Debbie is pretty busy right now with the end of the semester near. But once she gives me the ID's I'll post them up... now they're just pictures (except the first one).
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cowpoke
climber
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Apr 27, 2008 - 09:08pm PT
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Wow, Ed, what a beautiful collection of shots. Love the parting rattler...are those vertebrae in the Springtown Preserve set?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 27, 2008 - 09:18pm PT
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vertebrae of some animal... not sure what. Nothing goes wasted out there in the "waste land"
thanks for the comments! I finally figured out a way to get out with Debbie and do more than just collect a bunch of pictures. She's a "Friend of Springtown," does a lot of botany locally, and is developing a "hit list" of plants with no public access pictures on the web. So we'll get those hopefully sometime in between the climbing. But generally just go out and shoot the flora.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Apr 28, 2008 - 12:56pm PT
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Ricky D.
Awesome pix of those poppies!!!!
They're like weeds in my front yard, I can't get rid of 'em,
and they don't look nearly as nice as yours!!!!!
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana (the other Mideast)
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Apr 28, 2008 - 05:01pm PT
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My allergies say yes...everything that can bloom is/has been blooming here in Bloomington for a couple weeks now. Now I know where the name comes from...It is quite spectacular with all the colors and aromas.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Apr 28, 2008 - 05:44pm PT
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I thought spring was here, but then Friday we got 12-22" of fresh wet snow. I was too busy running the snowblower to take pics, besides it doesn't take much imagination to picture everything white. Record snowfall for this late in the season, heaviest snowfall of the year.
Al Gore, where's your sign?
We should see green/blooming spring in about 2 weeks, can't wait.
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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Riverside, CA
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Apr 28, 2008 - 08:38pm PT
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Thanks for all the great pix!
Already summer fire season in SoCal. 500 acres above Sierra Madre now ashen.
Saturdays suspected origin: Boy Scouts camping above Arcadia.
We really did already have spring, the southern facing slopes have turned from green to brown, and the north facing slopes at lower elevations will soon follow.
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City, SD
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Here's the forecast for tonite...
/O.CON.KUNR.BZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z- 080503T0000Z/ RAPID CITY-PENNINGTON CO PLAINS-STURGIS/PIEDMONT FOOT HILLS- SOUTHERN MEADE CO PLAINS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...RAPID CITY...WALL... STURGIS... UNION CENTER 810 PM MDT THU MAY 1 2008
...BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT FRIDAY...
A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT FRIDAY.
RAIN AND SNOW WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW TONIGHT...AND THE SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. THE SNOW WILL BECOME VERY HEAVY AT TIMES. BY FRIDAY EVENING...STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM 7 TO 14 INCHES. ALONG WITH THE HEAVY SNOW...GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH WILL CREATE SIGNIFICANT DRIFTING OF THE SNOW AND WHITEOUT CONDITIONS.
TRAVEL WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT DURING THIS STORM...SO CONSIDER DELAYING YOUR TRIP OR TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...MAKE SURE YOUR VEHICLE IS IN GOOD CONDITION...KEEP YOUR GAS TANK FULL...DRIVE CAREFULLY...AND CARRY A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT.
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2008 - 11:04pm PT
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museum, It's a trip to think about you snow people..here in Chico..the hills are starting to turn brown, frost is long gone, gardens are being planted, and the sweet smell of honeysuckle and orange blossoms is in the air. Hope your storm does Not last to long. Sweet dreams ..of spring for you.
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City, SD
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Nita, in a couple weeks the lilacs will be budded, and in a month the trees will have leaves- but the last frost is JUNE 5. Is that nuts?
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Indianclimber
climber
Las Vegas
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I love spring
Red Rock
Red Rock
Valley of Fire
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City, SD
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Here's my weather report for 5-2-08..
5:00AM
9:30AM
Upgrade to level 3 by 10:30 (I made that up)
A full out Great Plains Blizzard is truly a beautiful thing. And this was a good one. This morning at 10:30 winds were 61mph gusting to 81mph with zero visiblility. It sounds like a train is in the back yard. The power and phones went out from 12:30 AM to 9:00AM and no cell coverage. 36oF and 14" of snow. There will be significant drifting of snow, however.
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2008 - 11:16am PT
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Museum, My local news showed pictures of the storm..Looked Hairball!..Hope today is better weather. ;-)bytheway, love the blizzard pics.
edit: Ed, those Downingias pics are spectacular! ..also, always enjoy seeing tidy tips.. such happy flowers. ;-)
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City, SD
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nita, it is very nice today- sunny 65oF. Now it will flood lowlying areas!. The news said this was the worst May blizzard since 1950. North of here in Harding/Perkins counties the snow is 48" deep- which is alot for for the open prairie. I won't have to water my grass 'till July.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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More great photos here, and contrasts.
The view never seems to improve in Museum's backyard, but things are starting to green up in mine.
The downside -- it's pine pollen season too. My eyes itch all day.
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