Sunday, March 27, 2011

It's Spring!

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Missouri Botannical Garden 2011-03-26 4

Hooray for spring! This was the scene at the Missouri Botanical Garden yesterday afternoon during a late season dump. I mean, the Cardinals baseball opener is four days away and I'm planning to attend, so what's all this then?

This photo was shot in thundersnow. And, gee, soon it will be real spring in St. Louis, with its violent electrical storms and chance of the odd tornado.


The same thing was happening at Citygarden downtown, as illustrated on Downtown St. Louis 365 today.

Kindly Geppetto - Spring Snow

15 comments:

T. Becque said...

Ha ha - your title! It's a great picture and although I'm sure you didn't appreciate it, the snow (and scene) is very beautiful.

Stefan Jansson said...

Very upsetting. Who are we going to blame for this!

cieldequimper said...

Are you planning to make a Christmas card out of this one? I'll buy.

This reminds me of scenes in Central Park by I don't-remember-his-name.

Birdman said...

This shot looks TOO familiar to me. What's up with spring? At least the Sox will be in Texas Friday... no snow?

Sharon said...

This is so hard for me to grasp when I was at the botanical gardens here yesterday in shorts and shirtsleeves.

Jilly said...

You always make me laugh, Bob - in your posts and in your comments. Can't wait to meet you when you get to Menton.

These are two super photos.

Randy said...

That really is a beautiful photo. Send some this way! We could use the moisture.

Amanda said...

I have a post today on Spring + it doesn't look anything like this fortunately. Too wimpish here to have snow for more than a couple of weeks in the depth of winter!

Olivier said...

impressionnant, je trouve cela magnifique mais surprenant. J'ai vu sur les webcams (et oui,quand je suis en manque, je regarde NYC a travers les webcams) qu'il neigeait sur NYC.
La photo est superbe

William Kendall said...

Snow, snow, snow, snow... it looks so lovely. Just the thing for a late March day, isn't it?

Linda said...

You're selling your weather well - I can't wait for the real spring!

Gunn said...

Gosh! That looks pretty, but I can nearly feel the rain and snow all the way over here....

Virginia said...

When life gives you the late snowfall........make some damn good photos I say. THis is great. Aren't you glad you had a crack at it!

Wear longjohns to that balltgame B.
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brattcat said...

perhaps i should have my head examined for saying it but this is just beautiful.

Anonymous said...

Lovely and timeless. I like this.