Spring!!!

[flying_kiwiman]

I don't know what its like at your place but here (Holland) spring is finally showing herself!! infact we just put the clock forward a hour!

rock on dry trees !! so had enough of wet climbing gear!!!! /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

here a pic of the first signs...

any of you have pics of typical spring signs in your neck of the woods??

Jelte

 

[glens]

Hi.

I don't know if we've yet set our clocks to "summer time" in the US. Thankfully, we don't mess with the clocks here in Indiana, though it seems some die-hards in the legislature waste our time and money trying to get that changed just about every year.

Could you do me a favor and replace your 258573 byte avatar with the down-sized version (18965 bytes) I've attached here? It would make my modem very much happier.

Thanks,
Glen

 

[Leif]

I don't have any pictures, but the azaleas and citrus trees are going crazy w/ blooms right now. /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[joesoup]

Are you on Dial-up man?

I changed my avatar at your request for your "modems Sake"
however the pic you attached didn't work, so I just resized it
in photoshop.

Joe

 

[Treelimbjim]

I'm sure this Spring stuff will reach the latitudes further north.
But, for your longing, here's what's going on around my playground-- er, um, work.

Over a third of the picts were taken in the last week. 25,000 tulips and other bulbs, hundreds of azaleas, dogwoods in bloom, elms are busy covering up their mistletoe, and the live oaks are flowering.

Caution: over 100 thumbnails, so wait for the load.

http://www.smu.edu/campus_planning/Landscape_Photos.asp

 

[Rupe]

Signs of spring, first day of rec climbing! Six of us went to westonbirt arboretum for a bit of climbing.

 

[Rupe]

While we were there we called in it look at the oak tree used in the masters challenge of ETCC 2003. Awesome tree! Mark B may prefer not to open this attachment!!

 

[Rupe]

After a few more silly pics, the batttery went on my camera so unfortunatly there are no pictures of the true arrival of spring on display at the arboretum!

 

[Mark_B.]

ouch... I did open it. It still smarts a bit... thanks Rupe! Anyway, luckily there was Maastricht inbetween. Doesn't pay to take these things too seriously, though, does it? Luverly place, Westonbirt. If anybody over states-ways comes over, make a point of visiting Westonbirt Arboretum, it's... a bit magical, I suppose. In that respect alone ETCC 03 wasn't pointless to me. That and Beach-Rolley racing, of course.
For this years ETCC in Copenhagen I thought we might combine Beach-Rolleys with Power Kites, any takers? /forum/images/graemlins/jamminz.gif

 

[Rupe]

Maastricht more than made up for westonbirt! Glad you took it in good humour. None of us wanted to climb that tree yesturday, so we stayed with the work climb beech instead.

 

[Mark_B.]

...thanks Rupe, but you're avoiding the main issue here: power kites meet beech rolleys! What do you think?! Whoa, Freudian slip there... make that "beach".

 

[Rupe]

I don't think I can bring my beach rolly on easy jet? And I sold my power kite years ago! But yes good idea, how much open space is there at the site?

 

[Mangoes]

Spring my a**, we got 15cm of snow yesterday. REALLY heavy stuff, I had to shovel my driveway with a long handled spade, so I could actually pitch the stuff with my out of shape self. Sucks

 

[TreeCo]

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Spring my a**, we got 15cm of snow yesterday.

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Man it got to 78F here near Atlanta today.

And the extra light in the evening............so nice.

The Bradford pears are all leafed out and done flowereing
Forsythia is done flowereing.
Only the very late Dafodils are still looking good.
Oaks are maples are leafing out.
Cercis(redbud) is in full bloom.
Early hostas are up.
Jap maples are leafing out.

Dan

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Two years ago I visited Westonbrit. We got there in late afternoon and did a short walk. Then we came back the next morning for more walking. What a wonderful place. Full of great climbing trees!

How much do the Beach Rollies cost? I can't find them in the US.

 

[Rupe]

They are about 50-60 pounds here in the UK. I looked on PC site but they are not listed there. Probably cheaper in Europe.