When everything is beginning to shoot out and there's still a chance for hard frost to knock everything back.

Hey Ken,

Our lilac bushes are forming the beginnings of blooms. Our apricot tree has bloomed and been pollinated by bees. A coyote or raccoon got one of our guineas. The vultures (buzzards) have returned. Tree pollen is becoming an allergy problem.

Grin. ZM

When I start sneezing.

The pulsatilla makes its annual appearance.

Pasque Flower, Pulsatilla vulgaris – Wisconsin Horticulture

JUNE 1

Here it's azaleas and purple toadflax blooming.

..... we take down the Christmas tree. At least that’s what I’ve decided to live by. I have lots of indoor bulbs on the go and the first snowdrops will appear outside around the end of December. Then, in my climate, it’s slow burn spring for the next 5 months....

I consider it officially spring when the nights stay consistently in the 40s.

junkie reminded me... when i switch from my winter coat to my starter jacket ...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=starter+jacket+wolverines&t=ffcm&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

the next phase ... is when i switch from blue jeans to cargo shorts .. and skip the coat all together ... keyed in with this is when i change from the wool ball cap to cotton or vented ...

ken

I don’t really have different winter and summer clothes. Well, I have summer clothes which I wouldn’t wear in winter but I keep the winter stuff at the ready all year round. 🙁

ken, I'd say spring break arrived for the wolverines Tuesday night, sadly the dance is over for this year :(

tsugajunkie, I hear you ... just last year we got about 3" of the white stuff on May 11.

zen_man, I used to think that the return of turkey vultures was a good sign of spring (there's a place near Cleveland that celebrates their return every March 15), but it seems these days some stick around all winter, apparently scavenging at the landfills. I saw a great egret earlier this week, which may be a better harbinger of spring in this area.

Locally, the flowering of the wild serviceberries means spring is definitely here IMO.

Arbordave, not quite like the swallows returning to Capistrano, I guess. Haha. However, I do love the idea of Cleveland celebrating the return of the vultures. Just so weirdly wonderful.

Here, spring is definitely here when I am not running to close the door to the deck after Sam (our loony 90-lb lab mix) pushes it open to come in from the backyard.

Dandelions. But one or two of them were even poking up in Feb...

saw one yesterday ... tucked against the south side of a huge tree ... maybe a month early ... but it was cozy in its tiny mini micro climate ...

When I can sit on my front step and have my morning coffee without freezing or sweating i say it's spring. To me the first circling vultures just mean winter is backing off enough for the roadkill to thaw. Yummy!

Flip flops are always here. Vultures are always here. swimsuits never put away but are forgotten for a week or 2. We are headed for 95º this week. Yuck. We are a conflict of heavy freeze damage and summer already.... What spring! Bare Oak trees and possible triple digits in the parking lot.. Crazy.

Count 20 days after a radio announcer jumped the gun on March 1.

Tulips are popping out!

The wild parrots are flying again in my neighborhood.

Spring is definitely here when you go outside to work in the morning with two shirts and a sweater on and by afternoon you are down to a T - shirt and jeans. On a day like this, shorts.

Ants in the kitchen.

Rogue 21 got it . June 1

"The Newbie stay out of your garden thread" has been bumped up for the umpteenth time. I know it is spring up north also.

First brushfire of the year. Must be spring

So many things in bloom and everything is yellow from the pollen! Allergies! My Azeleas are blooming and I have several Amaryllis blooming. Lots of roses.

First "tree" to bloom here in the oak/hickory/pine forest -- Allegheny Serviceberry - Amelanchier laevis.

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants. (Dorothy Parker quote)

In Zone 5b, SE WI, we say Spring really comes June I and by then it’s just about Summer!

debra

Note to four(9B near 9A), all weathermen count March 1st as the first day of meteorological spring as opposed to the beginning of astronomical spring on March 21st.

Spring peepers!

Things start turning yellow ... daffodils, forsythia, and my car covered in pollen (why does our cedar have to be a male? and the stupid yew, too!)

Canada geese returning too lets me know it is not far off. I have been seeing Comma butterflies for weeks now. Yes Grace, Spring peepers! I heard them the other evening. What a lovely chorus.