[Magdalen] Spring is sprung

[Jay Weigel]

It has snowed a bunch here in the past several weeks. We haven't got rid of
all the snow from the last dump, it rained most of yesterday, and the
ground is saturated. Last night we had a power outage, most likely from a
tree falling over on a power line; it was exceedingly windy day before
yesterday. Now it's snowing again.

Last year this time we had snowdrops and the first crocuses. We are not
amused.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Rained all night in Sewanee THEN the temps dropped a bit and granular snow
> fell now flakes. It will continue getting colder and be in low teens
> tonight.  I'm supposed to drive to Chattanooga in the morning to spend the
> day but not sure what may be in store by morning. I'm flying home out of
> Nashville at noon Saturday.  Of course I'm hopeful that next weeks sojourn
> to VA will be weather hassle free.... Right.
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 5, 2015, at 11:28 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oh hush, Roger. It's snowing again here, so hard I can barely see the road!
>
> Jay, grumpy in northern Virginia
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Roger Stokes <r.s.stokes.65 at cantab.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Yesterday out walking with a group I saw on a grass bank snowdrops,
> > daffodils and crocuses.  This brings to mind the verse
> > Spring is spring, the grass is is
> > I wonders where the birdies is.
> > The bird is on the wing, they say, but that's absurd.
> > How can the bird be on the wing when the wing is on the bird?
> >
> > Here is a report of more than a wing being on the bird.  It was a weasel
> > on the bird which a photographer was able to snap.  I am glad to report
> > that after bird and load had landed he walked towards them, the weasel
> > dismounted (probably somewhat surprised by his flight) and the bird flew
> > away.
> >
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31711446
> >
> > Roger
> >
>