Thursday, January 05, 2006

Golly

Well, I was going to write about coping with the long winter ahead, but that changed walking into work this morning. It seems that the lovely 40s and 50s of the last few weeks has tricked some cherry blossoms into opening early. I mean I was stunned, there were little pale pink buds starting to unfurl.

I mean the pansies in bloom are to be expected with the new hardy varieties, but cherry blossoms! Wow! Of course, this is not good news. This might ruin the spring display. Those buds won't be there to open in April and May. And that's a lot of stress on the trees. Especially since the almanacs and winter forecasts call for another period of cold snowy weather coming our way. Yikes!

Poor cherry trees.