2019 NH Spring/ SH Fall Photo Thread

nice city views from the park; looks like everyone is getting buds now, at most a couple weeks apart

On Easter I went for a long walk on some back roads near where my parents live. The weather was beautiful, clear sky and a temperature of around 65ºF (18ºC) at the time.







The foliage looked brilliant in the sun.



Dam on a creek



Some farm scenes:







Cute lambs



Flowers







This area is swampy for some reason



Horse barn



Equine laundry?

Today was really hazy. Especially in the morning, not so much in the afternoon. When I first went outside to go to the grocery store at like 10am, it was like when I was in Bangkok. Very weird.

Wonderful day today. It was 20.6'C in my area at 14.15. 18.0'C at the airport at 14.00 (19.2 at 13.00). When I went east to the city center it got noticeably cooler surprisingly enough. Lots of green trees, but all of them (except the saplings close to the ground) are green due to catkins and not actual leaves. Pretty much indistinguishable from leaves from a distance though.


It's really dry here. We've had 2-5mm of precipitation in the last ~35 days, and although these fields in particular had snow a week ago, they're pretty dry from the 15-20'C sun we've had since then, and there's a top tier fire hazard warning, yet this farmer was burning cut branches and twigs in the middle of the field with last year's grass.






Pond doing fine, and this area has started getting grass because of the snow that's been lying shaded and melting down into the pond.


You'd expect the river to have a heavy spring flow. After all, as you can see on the satellite image at the top of the thread, there's still a decent of snow right upstream (and to be honest in shaded and woody areas even around Umeå), and it's been like 15-20'C pretty much every day the last week all over the county all the way from the Scandes down to Umeå. However, the river is really low. Very odd. It was a lot higher just a couple of weeks ago.


As you can probably tell by now because it's basically all I post, I like the look of paths through forested areas.

Creek's water level is more in line with what you'd expect. Still some snow down there lol.


It was surprisingly empty outside today considering it's the warmest day of the year so far.


Dandelion! Damn. There were quite a few along that riverside walk. Also, can you spot the nettles? 

Flowers


The bird cherries have some leaves sticking out, but most buds are still just buds. That bird cherry at the arboretum certainly was a bit of an anomoly. The rest should follow suit pretty soon though.

This borderline bush/tree/hedge thing has started getting its leaves. More noticeably so closer to the wall.


These Sorbus Ulleungensis (some kind of asian mountain ash) are pretty close to unravelling their leaves.


Some birches have started showing their leaves. None have enough or large enough leaves to appear green from a distance though.


The ones in the city center square has more leaves, but even this one, despite being an rediculous anomoly with the square being ground heated and all, isn't really visibly green from a distance, except for the catkins.

some more Long Island photos to show leaf out progress. Mid-week Tuesday and Wednesday



almost all trees have small leaves



dock





some tuplips



blooming trees



usual hill view



another street with lots of trees



sunnier next day. and windy





small waves on the harbor



has to be one of the older streets housing-wise on Long Island

In between the two comparisons in my last post, it snowed. The snow was wet and stuck to everything then melted the next day. Beautiful

Driving around:




(next day)


In the woods it was white all over.