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Layla ([personal profile] layla) wrote2008-04-24 03:07 pm

Meltiiiiiiiing...

Can it be ... spring? The snow is vanishing fast (although it's supposed to snow again this weekend. NOOOOOOOOOO). There's still up to 1-2 feet of snow in sheltered places, but the driveway is mostly bare, and the creek is flowing on top of the ice. I keep taking pictures and then forgetting to post them, but I'm sure you all know what melting snow looks like.

[identity profile] pamola.livejournal.com 2008-04-25 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
Here is the spring we have so far. So these beauties are already two weeks history. Now we have the musical sounds of city workers digging up the street to put in the sewer (at last).
Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gusgrosch/2428314177/)
We also have your (or northern Canada's) gannets filling up on fish before they head north:
Image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gusgrosch/2436928949/)
The local wildlife rehabilitator treated two or three gannets for aspergillus (mold) this year, so she was glad to see them out in the wild. They apparently make Cape Fear a stopover on their fly north and south.

[identity profile] pamola.livejournal.com 2008-04-25 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
My error the Gannets are headed to Quebec or the maritimes.

[identity profile] laylalawlor.livejournal.com 2008-04-28 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, pretty! Thank you for the pictures! It's been snowing off and on for the last few days here ... at least we're not in Anchorage (300 miles south of us) which got a FOOT of snow a couple of days ago! That's just not right.