finland.. yikes .. lol ...

welcome to GW ..

i suppose i am about the same in regard to spring .. but no snow cover this year .... in that regard its been weird ... but the temps have been rather consistent ... but w/o the snow.. i think we have been warming a bit earlier in the day .... as the soil takes some heat from the sun ...

it seems we have been more temperate w/o the snow.. but the weather channel seems to be pretty consistent with reporting that we are usually w/in a few degrees of ave./norm ...

thx for the pix ...

ken

You sure have the pine trees don't you? We haven't had much snow this winter either, we have gotten lots of rain instead.

For us it's much the opposite. More like where is winter for me!

Yes, where was winter? We used to be a clear zone 5 here not too many years ago. This winter I had to open windows, even at night, to cool off the house. Night time temps have been in the 50s and 60s sometimes. Crocuses are past, iris reticulata passng, early daffs in bloom. The star magnolia is opening--and according to my records the earliest it has ever opened before was March 21. It usually opens around March 27.

I thought you guys were dark now, or do you get some daylight in winter? The only thing I know about Finland is the great band Nightwish. I love Nightwish!!!!! If you don't know about them just ignore me.

Nah Poaky, even if they were dark for any time (which would only be the northern 3rd of the country anyway), they'd be well beyond that by now. The darkest time would be around the winter solstice and its now almost spring equinox. Their days are rapidly getting longer, much faster than ours.

Yes you'd have to go to Lappland, northern Alaska or any place north of polar circle to experience polar twilight and to the north or south pole for true polar night. Here in Helsinki the shortest day is 6 hours and longest 19 hours and today lenght of day was 11 hours.

poaky1,Nightwish was in my opion a great band when Tarja Turunen was vocalist but since she left I have lost my interest in them.

Here is a link that might be useful: Nemo

Orso, I have read many posts on YouTube about many fans of Tarja/Nightwish feeling the same. I like both singers as I haven't been a fan from the start, just recently heard them. I hate most of the pop music here and like any good metal/rock I can get my ears on. Sorry I'm off topic.

It looks like Wyoming when I went there to visit my mother during the winter years ago. Never again. However, it's very nice there during the summer...

lou in Wyoming they have beautiful mountains but we have the Baltic Sea. On those first photos all the flat area is sea coverd in ice.

This photo of me and my daughter was taken on May 2,2009.

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Marko

The question now is...Summer, why the hell are you here this week?

Its just stopping in to say hi and root through your fridge for anything edible before heading back home.

70's this week, rumors of 80 or so next week! Spring, where are you?!

Hi Orso,
I'm writing this at 9:08 PM with my windows open and the Spring Peepers are singing loud and clear, this is a sure sign that Spring is here just like much of the US. Is that Pinus sylvestris in your pics?

Yes,sam those pines are Pinus Sylvestris. That place is an esker so it's very dry and soil is nutrient poor gravel so most other trees don't tolerate conditons there.

Marko