Ohio iris before Seattle iris? This spring weather really is topsy-turvy. Thanks Dan and Becky for the picture from your country home. (Maybe this will shame our city iris into blooming.) The weekend weather in Seattle is still a mixed bag of sun and showers with high temperatures about 10 degrees below normal.
Robert Frost wrote about chilly New England, but these lines from Two Tramps in Mud Time sound like our Northwest spring:
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.
from, Two Tramps in Mud Time
Robert Frost
The Emergence of Spring(artist unknown)
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