That 35-50 degrees is night time temp's right? That wouldn't bother me at night but that's too cold for day time! LOL.
hmm ... I don't think I would be able to get used to it raining for 6 months! I like rain but not all the time. Cloudy and dreary would be depressing to me. I don't like the heat of Florida but I do like the sunshine.
Need ID on an unusual bloom
Nope, that's the day range. Night is 10 degrees colder, but we hardly ever make it down to below 25F. Nope. Normal daytime temperatures are 40-55F and 55F is warm!
And all the rain is melting snowflakes. Its a fact, when landing in this city in the winter, one goes through a cloud into snowfall, then sleet, and rain on the ground. I have seen it many times.
My nieces and nephew had mousy brown hair until they moved from Washington to Alabama. Now they have blond hair from the summer sun! Oh, and talk about culture shock.
Yep, when I moved from New Jersey to Georgia in 1977, I went from brown hair to blonde. When I moved to Washington, it went brown again, and I grew moss on the north side.
Ha!
And the language barrier!
hmm ... I've gone from brown hair to blonde too! I've lived in Florida for 41 years and am always in the sun but ... my blonde comes from a bottle. ^_^ It does get even lighter in the sun though!
Lili, I bet there was a bit of culture shock for your nieces and nephews transplanting from Washington to Alabama! I was born in the south (Virginia) and have lived in the south my entire life. It is really interesting visiting other southern states and hearing the different accents. My husband had a student years ago who was Florida born but his parents had retired to the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. He suggested that area to us for vacation one year and we fell in love with it and vacation there often. I remember this young man's name is Roy and I remember one time listening to some of his friends and getting a kick out of how they pronounced his name. "Row wee".
I've been told I still have a Virginia accent even after being in Florida for 41 years.
Man, the language thing was huge down in Georgia. See, I am the last of 4 kids, and got to move south when Dad retired. I still had 2 years of high school and lets say it was also a urban (15 miles from NYC) to rural (5 miles outside town) adventure.
And man, what an adventure. Lets not talk about finishing school in rural Georgia, everybody was related to everybody else, and they all grew up together. Then there was me. The Yankee.
I moved to Seattle, where my two brothers were shortly after graduating. I visited while my folks lived there, but haven't been back since they left. I wonder what the place is like and would like to go visit when we can do a tour of the southland. I love the south quite frankly, kudzu, black widows, magnolias and the rest of it.
LOL! What part of Georgia were you in? My youngest sister moved up to N. Georgia right after graduating from high school (mid 70's) and she absolutely loves it! She has become a true Georgia Peach! Every time I go to visit her and we are driving around I love the look of the kudzu but do understand how it is strangling out native plants. We have the same problem here in Florida with some non native invasive plants. Magnolias are a real popular landscape tree here in the south! My sis has one called (I think) Lady Jane Magnolia that has the prettiest lavender flowers in spring. There's one with a soft yellow flower named Jon Jon that is gorgeous too! Now ... about Black Widows!?@% I have not seen any of those bugs since my family lived in Virginia. We have a spider down here called the brown recluse that is pretty nasty! A friend of ours was bitten by one once and ended up having to have surgery because of the infection!
Ugh! I don't like spiders ... and don't get me started on snakes! I wish there was some way to get them out of the state of Florida! We've had a couple of the deadly coral snakes in our yard this year! A neighbor killed two pygmy rattle snakes in their front yard in 2004 and another neighbor killed an eastern diamond back rattle snake in his backyard a few years ago! I love to garden but am very, very watchful for slithery critters! If I see one, even non venemous ... that's it for me for the day, I am in the house real quick!
I lived in Hartwell, 60 miles northeast of Athens on the Savannah River at Lake Hartwell.
As to spiders, snakes and all of the creatures, I love them all, but keep a safe distance. One positive thing about Western Washington is that nothing venemous lives here. Not much poison ivy, or poison oak. But we have nettles.
My sister lives north of Atlanta in the Kennesaw/Marietta area. You were in NE Georgia then ... very pretty area up there!
Well we were actually in the piedmont, down hill from the mountains. The soil was red clay, with little shiny mica flecks in it. Stained everything we owned a lovely orange color, especially shoes and socks.
It was beautiful. I loved the weather, fishin' and living in the country. I think about it often, but DW has no interest in living away from the city.
LOL .. I dislike big cities! My youngest sister fell in love with Atlanta at the age of 18. I don't know how anyone can ever get used to all the traffic and noise! I love the country but don't like being too far away from stores! LOL. I love to shop. I used to be so amazed years ago that my sister had to get on the interstate to get to the grocery store!
I guess for lots of folks, the perfect situation is to have a home in the country with a not too distant commute to the big city. But, with the price of gasoline nowadays that is hard.
I understand that there are people that commute to Seattle from eastern Washington, Cle Elem, Roslyn, Easton, and they drive the road daily.
Thats over Snoqualmie Pass at 3,022 feet, where there is plenty of snow and ice in the winter. And 75 or 80 miles.
I personally don't like driving much, unless I am on vacation. I would rather work around home.
It amazes me folks who have no problem commuting long distances to work. My Brother In Law works in downtown Miami and they live in NW Fort Lauderdale ... probably only 20 miles one way but a lot of sitting in traffic at rush hour. I don't know how people do it. I haven't driven on the Interstate in more than 15 years! I am a nervous wreck even as a passenger! I would cause an accident because of how nervous the speeding traffic and reckless drivers make me! Years ago I could drive from one end of the state to the other with no problems but not any more! I don't like long car trips at all ... prefer to fly!
Tell me about it, as that was my commute until my last job ended. 20 miles/20 minutes off peak, 20 miles/45-75 minutes at rush hour.
I am now looking only for closer jobs, as I don't like wasting that much time of my day sitting in a car idling.
Atlanta traffic is CRAZY! I try to go "around" the traffic - back roads, shortcuts, non-rush or non-lunch hours.
New blooms opening up today
Beautiful! Lets us know how long the flowers last.
ric
OK.....will do......we have had some hard rains the last two days so I don't know if that will help or hurt the blooms.