!!!!!hell yes it's march!!!!

well, last year it snowed in may, so. blooming buzzing weather confusion anticipated.

all this week the weather was so much better. this weekend is my birthday. next week brings the first paycheck from my new job. i get paid on WEDNESDAYS. pretty into march right now, pretty into life. can not wait to drink beer outside and read on my porch.

why would you say that you ate a peach if you didn't eat one?

― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Friday, March 7, 2014 7:29 PM (3 hours ago)

still wondering this.

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

first in with Michelangelo!

huh, i know the eliot poem but the reference escaped me.

Oh - it made me think of The Lake Isle of Innisfree. But Prufrock doesn't say anything about an unzipped coat. Googling those terms led to this http://eatapeachforlove.blogspot.com/ which is interesting.

I never get references because I'm an ignoramus, but I will always eat a peach (unless it's canned or in a gross individual plastic cup).

gawd you guyz are such marchkills, i'm just gonna stay inside and eat oatmeal now just like stupid old winter

It's your fault for being unintelligible with your poetry and peaches iirc. Anyway it's gonna be up and down for a while here regardless.

springtime whims are accountable to no man or woman

Love March and Spring but wish they'd hold off on the time change until late May or early June.

otm

Easy to say when you two don't live in desolate snow covered wastelands ;) we need that sun!

time should always go back, never forward

no way man! time has to keep moving forward or we will be stuck in this mess forever. ahead lies an abundance of earthly delights, which reminds me that this is almost xtc weather!

Love the time change. It's like a holiday for me.

True, living in Texas I have never understood the reason for DST. All it ever did was make bedtime difficult when I was a kid. Perhaps TX could opt out! Sum sets damn close to 9 pm in south Texas in the summer.

tbh i loved that shit as a kid. go outside and ball up until you were tired, go swimming late, just do late stuff all the time

daylight savings time deepens my resentment of the forces of social control

I was 8 or 9 and figured if the time could be changed and you lose or gain an hour then what was real?

Just seen a glorious sunset, it feels like the first in a long time. Saying that there been some wonderful winter sunrises during the shit weather. The first sight of spring gives me a jolt of optimism and gaiety, which has usually dissipated badly by the summer, but still it is nice while it lasts.

One of the women who work at my local deli says today should be considered a holiday.

when i first learned of daylight savings, i thought it meant i would lose an hour of sleep every night until the fall ;_;

i think it's a little too early now -- i remember when it was the last sunday in april. late march/early april would be better imo. also it kind of bothers me that 'standard' time is only in use 1/3 of the year

willing to bet this has been the hottest English day inside the first two weeks of March since records began. so many butterflies

the telegraph website says temps got to 19 c but if you look at the gravesend observations you can see that temperatures exceeded 20 c

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/gravesend_latest_weather.html

it's almost as if they don't want to acknowledge gravesend exists

not Gravesend, but I was in the countryside (near Northampton, in fact), teaching at an extracurricular residential school. it was, at one point, positively sweltering

here is the evidence of an absurdly early springtime - sunkissed imagos galore:

http://imgur.com/EIdofPm
http://imgur.com/01sOMtN

oh lol, used italic tag. am exhausted tbf

http://imgur.com/01sOMtN
http://imgur.com/EIdofPm

maybe i didn't. you don't want to see that shit anyway

plain links:

http://imgur.com/EIdofPm
http://imgur.com/01sOMtN

just hit 60 in nyc for the first time since december 23

Serious printemps action today.

and 17 F by Thurs night, at which point we set Mother Nature adrift on an ice floe.

sometimes you get the lion, sometimes you get the lamb

sweet ice storm coming tomorrow

High of 53 today. Low of 6 on Thursday.

awwwww yeah
that's my march

just enough time to wash my wool socks

Yes sir, yes sir three bags full

today is gorgeous in new england, i took a walk without a coat. was a little chilly but it felt great to not wear a jacket

these days aside, march is brutal. it's just a tease. real spring here doesn't come until late april

but having a 54 degree day in this winter feels like a miracle. in a winter as harsh, continuous, and cold as this one i seriously have trouble comprehending that it will get warm again someday. i forget what trees look like with leaves.

one week til the vernal equinox, amigos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4nHr44vE9I

oops that is a link to can's vernal equinox live on the old grey whistle test

Bitter, whipping cold today, Vern.

xpost - as if that's a bad thing! ;)

Until now, March has been ridiculous here in the Netherlands. From Sunday to today, the sky's been clear and afternoon temperatures have been close to or at 20°C (between 60 and 70°F) - I've been doing my running excercises in shorts and shirts for the last two weeks!

this evening sunlight is bonkers

I've been listening obsessively to Stravinsky's 'Persephone' (the later, sly, easy-going cousin to the Rite Of Spring) the last couple of weeks, but only just realized how aptly hell yes it's march it is. Go Persephone! Prrrriiiinnnnntemmmmps!

i didn't get a chance to post at the end of march, but vaya con dios marzo!

April 1st - first time I wore sneakers this year. Renaissant!

central texas is wildflower central right now! last sunday was fuck off beautiful. now we need it to rain for three weeks straight.

the best thing about more light in the evening is that sometimes my cat waits in the window for me to come home, and now i can see him

tbh he's waiting for me to feed him, but i like to imagine that he wants to see me too