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Nearly four weeks early

16 MARCH 2016

For the past couple of years, I have been noting the day on which the daffodils in the front yard first bloom.

In 2013, that day was April 9. In 2014, it was April 10. Last year, it was again April 9.

But as you can see from this photo taken today, the daffodils are just about to open. I'm expecting to see the first flowers fully open tomorrow, on St. Patrick's Day.

Perhaps it's appropriate in that I've always been more of a Q-Celtic guy than a P-Celtic guy that the flowers are here for Patrick rather than David, but it's rather disconcerting that the unusually warm winter is bringing the garden out nearly four weeks early.

 

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