Nature By The Yard » spring http://naturebytheyard.com Fostering a Natural Sense of Wonder Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:01:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Spring for a Day http://naturebytheyard.com/2009/02/11/spring-for-a-day/ http://naturebytheyard.com/2009/02/11/spring-for-a-day/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:19:33 +0000 Pam http://naturebytheyard.com/?p=592 I’ve been trying to put my finger on it for years now. What exactly is that smell? Last Sunday, it was a warm day, but there wasn’t that smell; the smell of spring. This morning, I went out to drive one of my sons to school and there was something in the air. It just smelled like spring. The birds must have felt it too. A Northern Cardinal was singing his song “popcorn, peanuts, chiiiiiippps” instead of calling. The House Finches were singing too. On my way to work in Princeton, I had the sun roof open and I heard the Pe-ter, pe-ter, pe-ter of the Tufted Titmouse song.

Skunk cabbage Symplocarpus foetidus is blooming along the stream. It has such a high metabolic rate, it actually melts the snow and ice around itself. No need for that today.
While on a walk with a group of preschoolers this morning, a honey bee was out looking for early bloomers. I don’t think she found any, but I sure enjoyed seeing her out.
I hope you got out to enjoy and smell the day. I know it won’t last. They’re calling for snow on Saturday, but it is a nice tease knowing nature still remembers how to be warm.

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