Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Late Spring

It rained the whole day. The total for the last 24 hours was about 1.35 inches, which, if the weather creatures on MPR are to be believed, sets a record for rainfall for all April 26's on record.  A cruel day in the cruelest month.

And yes, it is a very late spring. To illustrate I'm including a photo from Sunday at the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis and also calling up a photo from April 26, 2010, a year ago today. There is a noticeable lack of green leaves on the trees this year. Maybe the all day rain will change that soon, but the forecast for tomorrow morning mentions slush. Slush!


This is Harriet Island in 2010 from a perch next to the Smith Avenue High Bridge. Now that's what spring is supposed to produce from cooperative trees.


No tennis today.  I stayed inside and began to brush up on my French language skills.  They've been rusty for a good many years, but I'd like to get the pronunciation of chocolate eclair down so that I don't look like a fool at the boulangerie the next time I visit the city of lights.

Inside tennis tomorrow at Fort Snelling, it appears.

1 comment:

Santini said...

Apparently the trees know what they're doing. Slush?

Lousy weather abounds.