Spring is coming, I hope

Thanks for sharing. It sure felt like Spring here too, But I didn't see anything like that yet, not in the wild anyway. -d

I live in the deep South and I don't like cold weather. The feeling intensifies as I get older. Creaky joints fell better when warm.

Daffodils and redbuds are in bloom here. Dogwoods and azaleas won't be far behind. Nature is waking up.

perhaps you want no one to know but your location is a puzzle.

Oddly enough, we had some flowers bloom in December and they have stayed open and undamaged for several months.

Forsythia, redbuds, cherries, and maples are blooming here, and I can detect bud color on my azaleas. I noticed bats circling two weeks ago, and have heard spring peepers all week. Is Hotlanta still that far behind the times?

Know something about spiders tell me that the helix they weave is about protection from birds, the birds see this and do not fly thru it. Makes sense to me as birds will not be captured by the web but only destroy it.

Here is another one:

you can see almost the whole web.
Click on the pix to see the whole thing.

Mississippi, but I am very tired right now and cannot think straight. I cannot guarantee that if, in fact, it was Mississippi, that the locale is true. She just changed it somewhat recently, and "Palau" cracks me up for some reason. She must be at the University of Palau, or something.

I spent the first bit of my morning shoveling snow off of a roof.

that it really matters, she seems to be alright by me.
But It would be nice to know where.

the flowers mentioned are a minor hint! ;)

Ain't Mississippi!

I did get the 'flowers' hint, but I am not really about guessing where you are.

It was odd. I'd left the thread, noticed you had posted something, and then had to wonder why a refresh hadn't shown me any new posts in the thread. Hooray for site idiosyncrasies!

me not wanting anyone to know, that is. But that is the song, and I think it is by Oliver. I had to look for it by title because I never remember that this was Oliver's 'one hit'.

the one I like is that the latest posts don't show until you 'View All Posts'. The opening forums page definitely lags behind.

not Donovan, Oliver

Thank you...

Good morning starshine
The earth says "Hello"
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below
Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing saong
Gliddy glup gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy la la la lo lo
Sabba Sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla nooby abba nabba
Early morning singing song

Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song
Gliddy glup gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy la la la lo lo
Sabba Sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla nooby abba nabba
Early morning singing song
Singing a song, humming a song
Singing a song loving a song
Laughing a song
Sing the son, sing the song
Song the sing
Song, song, song, sing
Sing, sing, sing, song

Well, sort of...it was a hairy era!

I remember it, so I wasn't really there, ya know?

So I must have been there.

to figure where she is, somewhere in Missouri, not that it matters but I would just like to know a general location.
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/images/usa/missouri.jpg
somewhere around here...

So I paid attention to anything to do with music, especially the musicals like "Hair" and "Jesus Christ Superstar."

Unfortunately, my dreams outstripped my ability to practice. But I still know all that neat sh!t.

But here I am a silly tech dude...
who woulda thunk it..

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Say Box, say Hello...

don't you just wish!

I am popping in and out tonight. 6 of my 8 classes had quizzes this weekend, and I pop in when I am sick and tired of looking at all the typos, poor grammar, inability to follow instruction, too small font, etc...

When I have Blackboard up for entering grades, emailing student evaluations, and clearing out work submissions that I have graded I don't have any other Internet site/s up. I claim paranoid computing, that is my story and I'm sticking to it!

edit: oops... forgot to say Hello!

Hello back at you....
Trust me, I care

make 60 today, mahaps not even 55. The sun refuses to show thru the clouds.

Oh well, tomorrow they say 70, I hope they are right..

How beautiful! This has been the coldest and oddest winters I have seen in years, especially up here in Slave Lake Ab. With temps hitting -47 to -52 several times and for long periods...winds, snow that came in Oct and never left once.. Snow deeper than I have seen since I was a kid, lets just say it was one long winter here too. Thanks for the photo, it gives me hope there is an ending in sight! :)

I love daffodils and can't wait till they come up in NJ. Right now, it's the dead of winter here. Its below freezing and we have about 8 inches of snow with ice on top. We just had our first significant snow fall this year.

Your picture makes me think about how beautiful Spring is and how much I miss the garden. Thanks for the ray of hope!

AV

to that stupid song so it can't get stuck in my head.

I'm betting these photos were taken in the fall. These spiders ("Writing spiders", since the zig-zag seam in the web looks a bit like lettering; see "Charlotte") are most visible after mid-summer as they begin to achieve maximum size. I've seen them with bodies well over 1.5" and a 4.5" leg spread.

and a little scary.

This guy built a web as I watched, this image is about 12 minutes from his running of the main support wires. The web was complete in about 25 minutes:

Gotta work on the sizing, click the picture to see the whole thing.

It was a total fluke that I saw that listed when adjusting my profile and it just rolled off the tongue so nicely with Noobyoobywabba that I couldn't resist. It 'just cracks me up', too! I get a bit of a smile from it on bleak days, so I think I will keep it for quite some time to come.
I am happy to know that I am not the only one who gets a minor kick out of it. ;)

edit the usual - hope I didn't miss any

major hints. Well, maybe not major hints, but dead giveaways for sure. ;)

My city is in the Midwest on a primary waterway in a region that was acquired by the Louisiana Purchase.

My city hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the first ever US hosted Olympic games in the same year.

We have a long and rich, though frequently ignored and/or overlooked ragtime, jazz and blues tradition. A particular piano heavy style of Blues music carries our moniker. Johnny Johnson (very famous in my neck of the woods), Fontella Bass, and Albert King are notable artists in that particular Blues style. Chuck Berry, Ike and Tina, Miles Davis got their start here. Mama's Pride and Pavlov's Dog are 2 of our more well-known local rock bands from the 70's and 80's. Josephine Baker, Willie Dukes, "Little Alice" Moore, Head East, Jars of Clay, Oliver Lake and David Sanborn are 'ours'. REO Speedwagon and Ozark Mountain Daredevils hail from very near here (making them 'ours' by vicinity).

Muddy Records make its home here. 'Blueberry Hill' is here.

William Burroughs and Tennessee Williams belong to us.

We have been a 'soccer city' for many decades and a recent movie celebrated a good number of our soccer heroes. (The OH holds a world record in number of goals scored in a game [indoor soccer] - never brag if you can't do it personally and vicariously in the same brag.)

'Escape from New York' was filmed here - most of it anyway. 'White Palace' was set in my city.

We host a major international film festival every November.

Of late we are a globally recognized home to research in medicine, biotechnology, and agriculture.

Toasted ravioli, gooey butter cake, peanut butter, 'slingers', and provolone cheese are rumored to have been 'invented' here. We have our own style of pizza.

Hmmm... I could go on, but it would likely be interminable as my city is just way too cool! :D

edit because I wanted to and it is a free country

on which Mis... state it was. So, the location had been somewhat accurate in the past, then.

You do live in a very cool city. William S. Borroughs, indeed! ;)

when I was a young'un delivering newspapers in the dark. Walking between any two objects less than 20 meters apart necessitated a face-wiping due to spider silk. Yum.

they take out the other bugs. But if I find them in the living quarters, they are dead meat.
Brown recluse (aka fiddleback) is our most dangerous spider, and it is a nasty little brown beastie. So all little brown spiders I see inside get dead fast.
Ugh.
Love 'em and hate 'em all in the same moment... (note the effect of fear)

I believe that this is the only "poisonous" spider in northern Ohio, and I need to be very aware of such wee beasties in a lot of the work I do (non-computer-related). I generally don't need to worry about one coming out of a keyboard, but I've seen a few spiders inside a machine. Better than snakes, I guess.

in the dead of winter when they are dormant, or nearly dormant. I'd rather have cold hands than be missing fingers.

Wild pics... I'd freak. Even though my brother collected them growing up, and I have had boas. But coming out of a 'box' I do believe I would scream and jump like a 'wussy girl'! :D

Today, just in time for my commute home.

and French Fries ;-)

Hmm I turned my PM on two months ago. From another discussion that indicated it might be off by default, back to the profile.
And a big sorry box, I thought the tips were too easy, must have beeen half asleep.

As noted above I don't exactly want to be too easily pegged my students, to whom I provide TR links for useful information.

actually let them know that you are Boxfiddler?

But some of them are quick enough to figure it out if they hang around here, bump into boxfiddler and check the profile. All it takes is one!

to miss this completely???

Spring is the Best time of year. Nice and warm (mid to late Spring) in the day, cool in the eves.
After a nice little hibernation period (Winter) I can once again walk outdoors without feeling frostbite setting in.

Is that a Pic of something in your gasrden MJ? Or something from the side of a road or from a hike?

Whatever the case, nice shot MJ!

and ask for an edit?

I kind of thought your hints were a dead give-away, also. :0

but I really would prefer he notice and edit it voluntarily.

I did do the dead giveaway thing on purpose, I figured that folks following the thread would have their curiosity satisfied without having to respond with the answer. Yall are pretty sharp around here after all...

I may peer him/her in a couple of days if the post doesn't get edited.

edit: bwilmot hasn't enabled peer messaging...

frijoles and beans. Joined at the hip. Inseperable.

Maybe they should get a room...

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G'oahed, post w'ereyolike.

in my best aussi accent, not too good eh..

nope!!! Both of my heads are staying at their ORIGINAL SIZE (or bigger)!!!

says Those eyes scare me.

bring out Scummy, I know that you are holding him hostage.

cats eyes! Rumor has it the contact lenses Linda Blair wore in 'The Exorcist' were modeled on cat eyes...

Scummy took over W2K's account :D

I can see that happening...

NOT..........

W2K killed Scummy and got more scummy himself! :D

w2techman killing the Scummy One is just beyond belief, and physically impossible without w2techman dying too.

I am pretty silly and enjoy a good joke now and then, but you border on heresy! :D

I could see that, it could happen.

But how do you keep it private.

tis fun! :D

Ok, I just jailed him. However I had to promise to let him use my account once in a while :^0

Guess that it works for you, I have enough trouble with the one of me...

who is not always one.

I checked my profile and the allow other members to contact me is still checked. Is there another spot to enable PM????

it is not greyed out and appears to be avail to send a peer mail.

NT

I would have sworn it was grayed out when I checked, but as noted in other places my brains leak out my ears when I sleep. :)

Thanks for the edit!

edit: yeah, I made the hints dead giveaways in the hopes that no one would feel the need to ask if they were correct...

however, my brains seem to be entirely dependant on my hair. The more I shed, the less I have!