Sherry Chandler

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• 1. Gin replies at 15th April 2006, 3:46 pm :

  This is what happens when we jump from mid April temperatures to mid June in three days. What happened to May? I shouldn’t gripe, though. I complained all winter about the cold. I won’t complain now that I got my wish.

• 2. sherry replies at 17th April 2006, 12:24 pm :

  Look at this, Gin, from the Human Flower Project:

  The last breath of spring has coughed up a thorn.

  Prickly pear cactus out on our corner has blossomed, bright yellow as lemon peel. This signals the end of spring in Texas and, alas, the onset of summer. It’s an evitable turn, of course—you can’t rein the seasons. The only problem is it’s all happening about three weeks too early.

  This summer harbinger, combined with alarming stories we’ve read about too-early English wildflowers, Alaskan species blooming too early to reseed, has brought global warming up close and personal. Please check out these compelling sources on the subject. This site reports, among other disasters, that scientists say the world’s coral reefs will be dead in 50 fifty years. This website runs down the evidence on every continent. North American examples include no subzero days in Glasgow, Montana (1997); Edith’s Checkerspot Butterfly’s disappearance from the lower elevations of its range in California; 2.2 million acres of land burned in Nicaragua (1998); Colorado marmots emerging from hibernation 23 days earlier than in the past—and, oh yes, our cactus flowering three weeks too early.

  Predicted high temperature today in Austin is 96 degrees. It’s only mid-April, people!

  Read the rest.

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