tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post2202299051963968697..comments2024-03-27T01:51:38.754-07:00Comments on Prairiebreak: Wordy WednesdayPanayoti Kelaidishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846898350006673316noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-24500090280571950242013-04-18T22:22:44.975-07:002013-04-18T22:22:44.975-07:00You are lucky to be late this year, Nicholas: you ...You are lucky to be late this year, Nicholas: you will probably have your fruit. We were lulled by a series of seven years of thinking we lived in a milder climate than we do: this abrupt and horribly flip flop between the deep freeze and warm days is actually more like it has been over the years: very discouraging indeed! We are at least three or four weeks behind last year--and slipping since we have had such great amount of snow lately: oh well!Panayoti Kelaidishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846898350006673316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-12687723007653082402013-04-18T05:25:08.830-07:002013-04-18T05:25:08.830-07:00Panayoti, I have found it best to refrain from us...Panayoti, I have found it best to refrain from using the computer between 10 pm and 6 am. What I write when I should be sleeping usually just embarrasses me later. However, this is often easier said than done. I find it is best to stay in bed when I cannot sleep. When my mind is ready to relax again I waste no time falling back into rejuvenating rest.<br /><br />JamesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-67212996524664835112013-04-18T05:24:34.982-07:002013-04-18T05:24:34.982-07:00Yet to see a single bloom here in Wisconsin except...Yet to see a single bloom here in Wisconsin except for the apple branches I snipped off and forced indoors in a mason jar of water. I didn't have a single apple last year due to a late frost, but I still have my fingers crossed this year.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15742158041464970078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-2275752886739941662013-04-18T02:08:16.300-07:002013-04-18T02:08:16.300-07:00Thanks for the link: glad to know about Chris Helz...Thanks for the link: glad to know about Chris Helzer's blog: looks like a good one to peruse!<br /><br />I'm sure one could "explain" our Colorado weather a million ways--and his is plausible no doubt.<br /><br />Simple fact: our springs are usually capricious: the miracle is not that we've had this horrible spring: fact is, practically every spring here is subject to repeated frosts. Old timers day we don't have spring at all: just a constant yin-yang between winter and summer--actually year round! (At least from January to June). <br /><br />What was really miraculous was that from 2006 to 2012--that's SEVEN years--we had nearly maritime springs: with gentle warming and only a few years had late frosts--which were not severe enough to cause major damage (just finish of magnolias say). Seven good years in a row is almost a lifetime! We were lulled into such complacency that now we have a truly more "Normal" spring (i.e. schizophrenic, bipolar, wacko) we freak out! The steppe climate is by nature whimsical and unpredictable--and we steppers have to just suck it up and get used to it! Illinois (don't forget) is at the other end of the summer rainfall steppe from Denver--so we are brothers under the sky! I had to delete the post and repost it because I found too many typos the first time (problem with writing during insomniac spells!)Panayoti Kelaidishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846898350006673316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-25976264542907648012013-04-18T02:05:17.080-07:002013-04-18T02:05:17.080-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Panayoti Kelaidishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846898350006673316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-11310503816193764692013-04-17T16:35:40.893-07:002013-04-17T16:35:40.893-07:00Panayoti, Here is a blog post that might explain ...Panayoti, Here is a blog post that might explain things.<br /><br />http://prairieecologist.com/2013/04/02/why-a-warming-climate-is-making-this-spring-so-cold-and-last-spring-so-warm/<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />JamesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-8951164356629069532013-04-17T08:56:21.710-07:002013-04-17T08:56:21.710-07:00Hi, Eeyore K.! I hear you, all the early plants ar...Hi, Eeyore K.! I hear you, all the early plants are a month late down in Abq (many still flowering...like daffodils, redbuds), but all the late plants are greening up on-time (mesquite leaf-out, etc). Maybe everyone is becoming like the wild side of the high plains steppes?David C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16897398037657414471noreply@blogger.com