guess it must still be winter

**jhockin** · 22nd February 14, 11:47 AM

I was noticing,a couple of days ago, that the crocuses and tulips are starting to poke through the leaf mulch, in my flower beds. We've had a very mild winter, with almost no snow ( which use to be, when i was much younger, very unusual) so far - and then this morning:

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I guess winter isn't quite over yet

, hope the flowers recover. At least I don't have to drive or work on it, today.

**Chas** · 22nd February 14, 11:50 AM

"Ne'er cast a clout, till May is out!"

**ChromeScholar** · 22nd February 14, 12:07 PM

We didn't have winter this year.

**ctbuchanan** · 22nd February 14, 12:21 PM

Ours has never stopped. Although it did get above 40F today and the sun is shining. Lots of snow still on the ground.

**GrainReaper** · 23rd February 14, 06:13 AM

We've had one of the worst winters in a long time here, and to think I moved back from phoenix for this... Uggg.

**Destin_scot** · 23rd February 14, 04:42 PM

The winter 2013-2014 in the South-eastern USA has been pretty brutal. I'm hoping my citrus and other semitropical plants will make it. Took a look at them this afternoon, and they look like they are budding out. Problem is we're still 26 days from spring, so I'm hoping we don't have any more of what we had towards the end of January.

**Chas** · 23rd February 14, 04:57 PM

This Global Warming is a real killer ...

**TheOfficialBren** · 27th February 14, 05:33 PM

We have had virtually no winter. It is 75 F right now. We were teased with cooler weather with a couple of weeks of high 30s F. That was in December.

I am not a fan of Californian weather (shockingly).

I need seasons. Real ones. Not just almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.

**Father Bill** · 27th February 14, 05:41 PM

I would need 2 1/2 foot crocus to get through the snow here!

**GrainReaper** · 27th February 14, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by TheOfficialBren

We have had virtually no winter. It is 75 F right now. We were teased with cooler weather with a couple of weeks of high 30s F. That was in December.

I am not a fan of Californian weather (shockingly).

I need seasons. Real ones. Not just almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.

One of the reasons I left phoenix, I needed a change of seasons, the smell of fallen leaves and the chill in the air..... So I moved back to the Chicago suburbs after 15 years of Arizona roasting to be greeted with this years Midwest offerings.... Well played old man winter, well played indeed.