2-1-12 SHORT HILLS: We have spring-like weather with temps in the sixties for a couple days. There was some rain last night, and the snow that we had is gone. We walked the dogs this morning, I wore a baseball cap and didn’t need gloves. Yesterday while in the yard, I saw insects swarming, new hatchlings, ready to pollinate something. Today I found snowdrops open, a dandelion open, a Vinca minor flower opening, some yellow forsythia buds and daffodils shoots up a few inches. All this activity is the result of the warm weather and not photo period. The days are still short, and the sun is still well down south and won’t be even half-way back to the Equator until February 21 or so.
The average January temperature was 37° in Newark, more than 5° above normal. We could have blizzards in February or March, of course, but the bugs and plants seem to be looking for an early end to a mild winter.
New blooms: snowdrop, Vinca, dandelion.
All these pix are from today, but the flowers had started in January!
Snow Drop.
Dandelion.
Vinca minor [creeping myrtle].
Daffodils.
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