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Spring is sprung, the grass is riz!
Not that it doesn't rise all year round! Today is the equinox and therefore the first day of spring according to some, including Google--and look, they acknowledged it with posies! They know we exist; yay! (Have the northerners got autumn leaves?) Actually we say here that spring starts at the first of the month, but there's been some talk about going by the solstices and equinoxes instead because summer seems only to start around Christmas.
Anyway, to celebrate, here are some pictures of spring flowers taken in various places last week.
Spring is sprung!
Assortment of flowers in Newmarket garden
Clivias in my garden
Clivia buds
Clivia opening
Blossom branch against dark wall in Remuera - I really like this one
Acacia cottage in Cornwall Park, where we had afternoon tea on Sunday
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Lovely and colourful flower pics. Large and vibrant.
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I hope we get a decent summer too, after the horrible winter we've had. I remember one summer when it rained all the time, and it was so depressing. I don't think you're alone though; the UK's had awful weather too.
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Yup. :)
And beautiful pictures. It looks so pleasant. Aaah.
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What gorgeous flowers!
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I must thank you and the others for an inspiration how to brighten our end of the equinox: to celebrate it. YES!Ugly weather may be but I will try and find something nice to post. Happy autumn and thanks for the beauty.
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Make an arrangement with gold and red leaves!
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The tree behind Acacia Cottage is stunning. Do you know what it is?
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...when you start posting about it being spring and pretty and warm and...
*glares* lol
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Although I admit, our winters probably are better than yours ;-)
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Our winters are ghastly. The only decent one I remember was ruined by all the drought doom and gloom.
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This year we will have our heat-pump! And I hope to have Venetians in the living room to cut down on the intense sunlight.
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I have a mental image of a line of gondoliers with parasols in your living room. :^)
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Lovely photos.
We don't have an official first day of spring or autumn in the UK, though almost everyone (including the media) seems to think that we do and that it's the equinoxes. The Met Office takes September 1st as the first day of autumn, but I suspect that's as much for book-keeping convenience as anything. Using the equinozes wouldn't really be very sensible, since the hottest time of the year is usually much later than the longest day and the coldest period is normally much later than the shortest day.
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I bought my first Christmas present last week...
And only six months before we get to have pretty flowers again, and that thing in your photo that I vaguely remember is called sunshine.
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This will be my sixth Christmas in Austria and we have yet to have snow on the Day (though it did fall on the 26th last year).
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But perhaps this year we'll get masses :-)
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p.s. Boo that you have spring. I am yet another person who is complaining about the lack of summer we had. I got no walking done this year as I kept getting stuck in mud all the time.
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Yuck; sounds like our winter when it's not worth going out for months. It's nice and sunny now (at last), but still fairly cold.
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Here summer is still hanging round.
Though the house martins seemed to have flown south we still have dragonflies whizzing around and most of the leaves have yet to turn.
in fact at the moment its brighter and warmer than it has been for most of August.
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