First signs of spring 2006

Yesterday I noticed a weeping willow with a slight yellowy-greenish sheen to it. Has anyone else seen signs of Spring yet?
P.S. Would much rather have seen an open Biergarten ...

Hmm, it's only mid-February, looks like there's another load of snow still to come before we can talk about snowdrops and beer gardens. Sorry!

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Spring? I spent yesterday evening driving over the Alps in frickin snow blizzard with zero visability! How can we be having spring already?

I saw a snowdrop appearing in the garden yesterday, will most probably be covered in snow again soon though

My boyfriend wants spring too but after skiing yesterday (lots of new snow, deep stuff to play in), NO WAY!! I'm not ready for spring!!!

I saw a stag ruttin'

Yaaayyy. Long live winter. More snow, more snow!

Oh bugger that shows snow throughout Fasching too

Gonna be cold and wet in Viktualienmarkt next tuesday.

I've noticed the days are getting longer.. its actually light when i leave for work in the morning now. Hurray! I can't wait, I am so sick of this winter. It can't get over soon enough.

Agree completely. For the last few days I have been wearing t-shirts to work. It's my little way of encouraging things along the right path. Granted, most mornings I get into the office I could cut glass with my nipples but it's a small price to pay.

I have stopped wearing my long underwear pants.

Also, birds have been chirping and flying around like crazy out in the country. Haven't seen them since I have been back from Christmas.

It's probably because of the underwear thing.

I bunged all my winter jumpers in the attic at the weekend and I'm NOT bringing them down again! You have to be strong!

Priceless... for everything else, there's Mastercard!

I have noticed the birds too. Kinda makes me smile when i wake in the mornings Oh and im able to make it into work early too which is always a good sign.

I bloody hate winter!!!

I thought waking up in the morning and seeing a bird would make you unable to come into work mate

All this talk about spring!--- they are still trying to clear the snow away in Deggendorf.

Don't worry, HW, you're off for home, Canada and glory in three days.
I did find some croci (or crocusses?) in a sunny south/west patch in Lehel.

And a yellow hoola hoop

I am actually quite surprised that winter seems to be 'over' already. It is our first winter here and everyone warned us how it would be painfully cold for weeks with deep deep snow... Okay so it has been very 'brrrrrrr' and the snow has been fantastic, but not as bad as I'd have imagined, unless this year has been much milder than normal, or of course there is still more to come?!

hula hoops... yum!! Can we get those here...?

I think 3 months of snow is a bad enough winter!

What did you want?

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@LucyK

From what people have told me, this has been one of the colder winters recently.

I always look for lambs and daffodils, at the same time. (Lambs tend to arrive just a bit before spring). Havent seen any yet so its not spring yet.



My dont they look tasty! To eat damn it! Im not welsh you know!

depends on your definition of winter I suppose - but it may not be quite over yet. I'd say a normal winter is mid November to mid or late March. But then spring can come pretty quickly

Kiwis just love sheep, don't they?
Well yesterday I saw a female jogger wearing only a t-shirt and thin pants when I went for my daily run. Just looking at her made me freeze, but she gave me hope that winter might soon be over after all. My trees (at the moment I still keep them inside in a room where the heaters are switched off) have gone mad, they have all made new leaves already and are flowering like crazy.

I like that all the floral shops are selling Tulips (my favorite flower) and all the Bulb plants! To me that is spring!

Yup, the pixies left it there after painting the shoots green.


Kiwis do have a similar reputation But I didn't see you looking for lambs at the sauna.

Haha. Wearing less accelerates springs arrival? I didn't realize! Shoot, Im still not ready to give up my long pants and jackets yet.

I don't care if there is snow in the forecast - I saw a budding magnolia tree this morning!

You'll know it's Spring when they start coughing and falling from the trees. Then we're all going to die. Panic now!

How the crap do you shag a daffodil?

There was a mallard duck in my backyard last Thursday. I tried to take a picture of him poking around in the snow to post on here... but he flew away while I was taking it so all I have is a little speck of him in the distance in the pic.

Haven't seen any snowdrops yet... but I'm definitely starting to feel friskier.

Printemps, c'est pour les amants!

so did you manage to get the lippy off your jumper, then?

Just arrived back after a weekend in blighty and i see it's been fooking snowing here again ffs

A hose pipe ban announced in the UK is always a good sign spring is around the corner.

Plus flogging motorbike gear tells me that it is nearly spring (many folk only register their bikes from March until end of October hence...).

By the time I got round to the local corner shop, they only had Vollkorn bread left... so I went home and just rubbed soap on it and, unlike the machine wash, that did the trick! Still want to test out the bread suggestion though

The sun now sits marginally higher in the sky. Does not cause such an amount of rhombus shaped lights on my TV during the day. Still quite a few mind.

You can always tell that spring is on the way by the amount of dogshit on the sidewalk. As the snow melts away it conveniently leaves an entire winters worth of shit for me to step in.

Yeah man, and then it snows again, so you walk on a path knowing full well that last night it was liberally spattered with dog poo, and the snow is not that deep...

The magnolia trees here in the Bay Area (around Berkeley, CA) are in full blossom, it's raining cats&dogs and about 52F. As to temperature, I may as well be in Munich. Oodles of snow still on the Sierra, rivers and reservoirs running low.

Haven't seen snowdrops yet.. but I swear I smelled them - uphill in Weihenstephan - about 2 weeks ago, just after the "BIG SNOW event in North Bavaria"-weekend!!

any my flowers in the window have started growing faster and faster - they know better: spring is HERE

I have seen lots of snowdrops.

One of the branches broken off a tree in last weekend's big snow is now budding to beat the band.

snow drops are struggling through in the garden and there are signs of budding. it's coming folks! waiting for the forsythia to break into its spring riot. gaudy bloody plant but such a welcome sign of spring! must buy some spring indicators for our new garden - willows, hazels, witch hazels, etc.

The old man(winter) hasn't given his last breath yet.

ah but hope springs eternal (sorry for the pun!)

Nope, still some snow flurries to come.
Amazing that when the 90 cm of snow melted, out came the crocus. They obviously lost patience and started growing underneath the snow.