OK, first, I would like to state that the weather is officially weird. We came home from the Green Schools conference in Pittsburgh (note: 2 degrees latitude, and therefore about 2 weeks ahead, phenologically, of home) on Saturday. That afternoon was cold, and the weather switched about every five minutes, from snowing -- almost white-out conditions -- to sunny and back again and back again. The only consistent thing was extreme wind, which presumably was moving the rest of it along.
Sunday dawned cold -- 26 degrees -- and topped out at 71 degrees. This swing of 45 degrees is the 13th highest single-day warm-up in Chicago history. (It was also... you guessed it... windy.) And overnight, the cold came back. Today's projected high is only 36! Notably, it's breezy but not crazy windy, at least!
We were able to wander around my parents' yard (about 10-15 miles south) during this brief mild period yesterday and saw... spring beauties:
and hepatica!!!
Seriously, isn't that a nice, healthy, beautiful bunch of hepatica? Wow!
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