#189213 - 02/11/10 10:26 PM
Spring show off
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Pooh-Bah
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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I saw a flicker the other morning doing drum solo's to impress the girls. Clever lad was drumming on the metal cap over a telephone pole and getting much more volume for his effort than he would have on on plain wood.
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#189220 - 02/12/10 04:50 AM
Re: Spring show off
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
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The ony spring show off I see here are the snowdrops ready to go but shivering in the snow. shiver But when the sun shines the birds already start their singing show off.
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#189243 - 02/13/10 02:19 AM
Re: Spring show off
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/27/02
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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The past few mornings I have seen cherry blossoms starting to pink the trees.
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#189258 - 02/13/10 05:24 PM
Re: Spring show off
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#189376 - 02/18/10 01:02 PM
Re: Spring show off
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Pooh-Bah
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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Yes it really is cherry trees starting to bloom. Crocuses are in full bloom and the daffs won't be too long.
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#189424 - 02/20/10 04:06 AM
Re: Spring show off
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Pooh-Bah
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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And I saw a camellia starting to bloom today.
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#189459 - 02/22/10 05:43 PM
not here in Frozenwastesistan
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Carpal Tunnel
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Amazing that crocus are up on British Columbia, while so far
south here, we are still in temps in the single digits F.
With all the ice and snow on the ground the temps have
a terrible time warming. But BC has had really warm weather
as all reports on the Olympics tell us.
But as someone said above, the Cardinals do appear to be
gettin redder; even the females.
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#189510 - 02/23/10 10:03 PM
Re: not here in Frozenwastesistan
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Pooh-Bah
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Hmmm.
Early cherry blossoms and crocuses are one thing but I saw rhododendrons in bloom today. That's just silly!
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#189521 - 02/24/10 11:12 AM
Re: not here in Frozenwastesistan
[Re: Zed]
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Carpal Tunnel
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Hmmm.
Early cherry blossoms and crocuses are one thing but I saw rhododendrons in bloom today. That's just silly! I am green with envy, the temp here now is 5 deg.F.
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#189526 - 02/24/10 12:24 PM
Re: not here in Frozenwastesistan
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Carpal Tunnel
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we have about 18" of fresh snow, and more coming down.
hi, Jackie!!!
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#189527 - 02/24/10 01:16 PM
Re: not here in Frozenwastesistan
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Carpal Tunnel
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Great for the ski - runs and those who love the sport.
Too flat here, just some run-of-the-mill hills.
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#189528 - 02/24/10 01:35 PM
Re: not here in Frozenwastesistan
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Carpal Tunnel
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Great for the ski - runs and those who love the sport.
and sadly, those that can afford it... :¬ (
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#189531 - 02/24/10 05:42 PM
Re: not here in Frozenwastesistan
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Carpal Tunnel
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I had not given thought to that, considering where I live,
but I presume it is costly, and out of reach for peons like me.
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#189583 - 02/25/10 06:29 PM
Re: Spring show off
[Re: BranShea]
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Carpal Tunnel
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Backyard food court? Sounds like you've made use of a new
term! Cute. My back yard food court is eating me out of
house and home. Still up to 20 inches of ice all over, and
the temps have been close to 0 all week during the night.
Did see geese flying north the other day, however. Only one
"V" so far, but that is better than nothing.
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#189695 - 03/03/10 02:52 AM
Re: Spring show off
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/27/02
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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Whistler or Blackcomb one day pass is $93 this year. $93!!
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#189991 - 03/16/10 01:06 PM
Re: Spring show off
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Carpal Tunnel
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Still winter. A couple tulips poked through before rabbits
ate them. Am now at war with the critters.
Snow forecast for the weekend again. Global warming????
El Nino???
Armegeddon? Snowmageddon??
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#190089 - 03/19/10 12:23 PM
Re: Spring show off
[Re: BranShea]
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Carpal Tunnel
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Absolutely beautiful. Deep purple crocus. I have a light
lavender one in bloom. Well, yesterday it was in bloom, closed
up tight today: snowing again. Beautiful picture.
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#190168 - 03/25/10 11:39 AM
Re: Spring show off
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I have some tulips and now hyacinth poking through, but the
temps were below freezing last night. It's taking a slow
entry, this year's Spring, is.
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#190894 - 05/05/10 09:43 AM
Re: Spring show off
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"I sawr a behd turday."
Hmm, /ʔaɪsɔːɹəbɜːd/. I understand the intrusive-r pronunciation up to the final word. Is the r intrusive, as Sir Michael Redgrave used to admonish his moppets not to pronounce, or does it somehow represent the schwa of the usual pronunciation of today /tə'deɪ/. I understand the intrusive-r to occur at the end of syllables when the next syllable starts with a vowel. YMMV.
OTOH, lovely Amsel (Turdus merula), though.
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#190897 - 05/05/10 11:58 AM
Re: Spring show off
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That line was stolen from olly,  I could never make it myself. I understand some blackbird schwa though. One piercing stretched sound that means "bring food", one lower chockle sound that means "come on Damsel Amsel here is food, and one hell of a cacophony that means " hell!!!,cats! magpies! Flemish jays, crows! All hands aboard!"
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#190903 - 05/05/10 10:26 PM
Re: Spring show off
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Carpal Tunnel
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"I sawr a behd turday."
Hmm, /ʔaɪsɔːɹəbɜːd/. I understand the intrusive-r pronunciation up to the final word. Is the r intrusive, as Sir Michael Redgrave used to admonish his moppets not to pronounce, or does it somehow represent the schwa of the usual pronunciation of today /tə'deɪ/. I understand the intrusive-r to occur at the end of syllables when the next syllable starts with a vowel. YMMV. The only sense I could make out of the ur in turday was a non-rhotic representation of some vowel I couldn't even begin to think how to represent. The eh in behd was my attempt that I probably shouldn't have begun to think how to represent for some other non-rhotic vowel.
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#190926 - 05/07/10 09:01 AM
Re: Spring show off
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Turdus Meroolah.
You can stick with the Amsel, but most folks around these parts (Silicon Valley and environs) would pronounce the two words as /'tɝdəs 'mɛɹələ/.
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#199900 - 05/17/11 11:25 AM
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#203494 - 11/25/11 12:12 PM
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stranger
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Wow, it's my first post on this forum , Test
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#203499 - 11/25/11 12:49 PM
Re: Spring show off
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My buddy blackbird and it's spring all over the place now.
The bird agrees with that completely as long as he gets his bits of bread.
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