the ocean

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Paraparaumu beach

The comings and goings of a hard working kiwi whose just moved home

April 7, 2009

Spring

This was taken march 26 , since then  the city has doe some snow removal, but there is still a large pile of snow around. spring is late this year, we usually get temp above freezing sometime in march. March 31 has come and gone, fortunately  last Friday things started to drip.
 now the reason you get to hear about this is that Mother has requested another saga for spring and  breakup. ( and i always do what mother says)
 My front yard. a good 18 inches of snow, that needs to disappear really fast.   the calender say that Fairbanks will be green by  May 10  if it s late, and it will be this year, is 36 days away. Let me see what mother nature can do in 36 days.
 On Friday after a day of warming  the snow starts to turn black. i heard on the radio the other day that" spring is when the snow turns black,  the pot holes get really large, and your car is filthy." all three conditions have been met.
 daylight progresses at the rate of 7 minutes a day we now  have 14 hours of daylight. The moon is out, if I could only hold the camera still. And the northern light's become hidden. It needs to be dark before you can see them.  so now for a fast melt -- there will be flooding somewhere. it supposed to be 40 tomorrow( 5 c)

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