smelling spring

loki <[email hidden]> wrote:
: There is somewthing life-affirming about cycling in springtime. The winter makes one [me at least]
: appreciate the rebirth all the more.

god, i dunno. i really dig having it all to myself in the winter and i definitely get a little
bummed when it starts getting warm, everyone starts biking and people stop waving as often. more
comraderie in the winter, that's for sure.

.. weather makes up for it, tho.

hasn't smelled like spring here, yet, tho.
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loki <[email hidden]> wrote:
: There is somewthing life-affirming about cycling in springtime. The

winter

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: makes one [me at least] appreciate the rebirth all the more.

god, i dunno. i really dig having it all to myself in the winter and i definitely get a little
bummed when it starts getting warm, everyone starts biking and people stop waving as often. more
comraderie in the winter, that's for sure.

.. weather makes up for it, tho.

hasn't smelled like spring here, yet, tho.

By that I meant it's edging up above freezing and there is a bit of a melt on. Still have a long
way to go. This weekend is supposed to get up to + 6 C or so.

The thing that annoys me most about winter cycling [other than the number salt/sand/crud does on
the bike] is that I can never seem to dress appropriately. I end up either going numb or sweating
profusely which then makes you cold - sometimes both on different parts of my body.

Once spring has sprung then tshirts and shorts rule. I do work up a good sweat it's just part of
the cooling system.

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The smell is the same one that I used to smell hunting for early morels in the forest in the
springtime as a kid. There's a time when the cottonwoods are greening up, but haven't yet leafed,
that you need to go out into the woods looking for them. Or, at least there was: the woods where we
used to hunt for them is now a housing development.

You're right, that spring time smell hasn't happened yet, at least, not around here, but it's
coming. If nothing else, it'll come on a sunny late afternoon when I'm climbing the Lake Hills
Connector on the way home from work sometime in mid-March, probably. Maybe it's a smell of warm
budding cottonwood trees, or maybe it's something else, that I just haven't put my finger
(nose?) on yet.

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loki said:

Ya, there is still a good half-meter of snow blanketing the ground, banks of
frozen/melted/refrozen snow/slush/ice lining the roads. And we're sure to get two more good
wollops of old man winter but I smell spring in the offing.

I get more excited at the prospect then I did as a kid on Chriistmas Eve.

There is somewthing life-affirming about cycling in springtime. The winter makes one [me at
least] appreciate the rebirth all the more.

There's an old expression: Don't say it's spring until you can put your foot on nine daisies.

Around here, by the time that happens it's almost june!

I say, "don't call it spring until you see at least nine cyclists."

Or "until you smell melting dog [censored]."

We're getting some nice springlike weather for at least the next few days- temps in the 40s. Of
course, it won't last and for sure we'll get walloped between now and the end of winter. And with
March coming in like a lamb, that means getting walloped at the end of the month!

Fri, 27 Feb 2004 03:03:08 GMT, <Mry%b.66204$Xp.314135@attbi_s54>,

Claire Petersky said:

You're right, that spring time smell hasn't happened yet, at least, not around here, but it's
coming. If nothing else, it'll come on a sunny late afternoon when I'm climbing the Lake Hills
Connector on the way home from work sometime in mid-March, probably. Maybe it's a smell of warm
budding cottonwood trees, or maybe it's something else, that I just haven't put my finger
(nose?) on yet.

Yeah, it's universal in temperate climates. There's definitely a new noticeable air that comes with
spring. It generally hits me as the ground is warming in mid-morning. You'd think we should be able
to described something that singular and common. Everybody knows what smell you mean though it
probably is actually different combinations of elements in various locations. They're then further
interpreted differently among individuals.

I wonder if it's as apparent in tropics.
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"loki" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The smell is the same one that I used to smell hunting for early morels in the forest in the
springtime as a kid. There's a time when the cottonwoods are greening up, but haven't yet leafed,
that you need to go out into the woods looking for them. Or, at least there was: the woods where
we used to hunt for them is now a housing development.

You're right, that spring time smell hasn't happened yet, at least, not around here, but it's
coming. If nothing else, it'll come on a sunny late afternoon when I'm climbing the Lake Hills
Connector on the way home from work sometime in mid-March, probably. Maybe it's a smell of warm
budding cottonwood trees, or maybe it's something else, that I just haven't put my finger
(nose?) on yet.

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The smells of spring for me are: Wet pavement, melting dog [censored], the muddy smell of exposed front
lawns. ANd when I was young, the smell of laundry after drying on the clothesline. I haven't had an
outdoor clothesline in years!

"Marlene Blanshay" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The smells of spring for me are: Wet pavement, melting dog [censored], the muddy smell of exposed front
lawns. ANd when I was young, the smell of laundry after drying on the clothesline. I haven't had
an outdoor clothesline in years!

The smell of spring I really dread is that chemical refinery one that accompanies all those little
yellow flags that pop up in the suburban sprawl I ride through. The other dominant one is the reek
from the tons of bark mulch that gets spread every spring.

On a brighter note, there were lots of exotic waterfowl yesterday along the Charles River, birds are
migrating through Boston, the season is definitely turning.

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We're getting some nice springlike weather for at least the next few days- temps in the 40s. Of
course, it won't last and for sure we'll get walloped between now and the end of winter. And with
March coming in like a lamb, that means getting walloped at the end of the month!

Oh yah. I like to wait until everyone is _sure_ that the snow is done, usually at the end of March,
and say; 'Not so fast! We've got one more storm coming. Take it to the bank.'

For me the certainty that spring has sprung is when the city gets the sweeper and vacuum machines
out to clear away the salt/sand residue crud. Usually we get the last snow just after that.

🙂

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Claire Petersky said:

"loki" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The smell is the same one that I used to smell hunting for early morels in the forest in the
springtime as a kid. There's a time when the cottonwoods are greening up, but haven't yet leafed,
that you need to go out into the woods looking for them. Or, at least there was: the woods where
we used to hunt for them is now a housing development.

You're right, that spring time smell hasn't happened yet, at least, not around here, but it's
coming. If nothing else, it'll come on a sunny late afternoon when I'm climbing the Lake Hills
Connector on the way home from work sometime in mid-March, probably. Maybe it's a smell of warm
budding cottonwood trees, or maybe it's something else, that I just haven't put my finger
(nose?) on yet.

I don't know what's happening at your end of the I-5, but around here I use crocuses as a reliable
judge of Spring. yesterday I went by one yard on my commute, and the lawn was covered with crocuses,
their blooms not quite open yet.

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Mazzoleni Fan Club

Ryan Cousineau said:

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work sometime in mid-March, probably. Maybe it's a smell of warm budding cottonwood trees, or
maybe it's something else, that I just haven't put my finger (nose?) on yet.

I don't know what's happening at your end of the I-5, but around here I use crocuses as a reliable
judge of Spring. yesterday I went by one yard on my commute, and the lawn was covered with
crocuses, their blooms not quite open yet.

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Ryan Cousineau, [email hidden] sfu.cawiredcolaOpen ↗ President, Fabrizio
Mazzoleni Fan Club

All to give way to the blood-sweat-tears of biking during the heat of summer.

-B

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All to give way to the blood-sweat-tears of biking during the heat of summer.

Or maybe blood-sweat-gears?

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I don't know what's happening at your end of the I-5, but around here I use crocuses as a reliable
judge of Spring. yesterday I went by one yard on my commute, and the lawn was covered with
crocuses, their blooms not quite open yet.

Hey my Camellia is starting to open. Must be 20 or 30 full blossoms of the 20K that are to come.

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loki <[email hidden]> wrote:
: There is somewthing life-affirming about cycling in springtime. The winter makes one [me at
: least] appreciate the rebirth all the more.

god, i dunno. i really dig having it all to myself in the winter and i definitely get a little
bummed when it starts getting warm, everyone starts biking and people stop waving as often. more
comraderie in the winter, that's for sure.

Ya now that its getting warmer lots more people on bikes come out, and playing the leapfrog game -
my pet peeve is when I pass a much slower cyclist, and then they proceed to pass me back at every
light because they run through red ones, and then I have to wait for a gap to pass them back again.
Not much leapfrog in winter.

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.. weather makes up for it, tho.

hasn't smelled like spring here, yet, tho.

Maybe its just my wish to smell spring but I smelt spring the other day in the air and it was below
freezing at the time but it felt springy somehow. On the weekend it might get up to 10C here (about
50F) which will *really* be feeling springy and surely there will be bikes everywhere.

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We're getting some nice springlike weather for at least the next few days- temps in the 40s. Of
course, it won't last and for sure we'll get walloped between now and the end of winter. And
with March coming in like a lamb, that means getting walloped at the end of the month!

Oh yah. I like to wait until everyone is _sure_ that the snow is done, usually at the end of
March, and say; 'Not so fast! We've got one more storm coming. Take it to the bank.'

For me the certainty that spring has sprung is when the city gets the sweeper and vacuum machines
out to clear away the salt/sand residue crud. Usually we get the last snow just after that.

We don't have to worry about that; it's usually mid-June before they get the sand swept up
around my area.

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(Marlene Blanshay) said:

We're getting some nice springlike weather for at least the next few days- temps in the 40s. Of
course, it won't last and for sure we'll get walloped between now and the end of winter. And with
March coming in like a lamb, that means getting walloped at the end of the month!

But at least the days are getting longer, and that's a blessing by itself.

cheers, Tom

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Ryan Cousineau said:

I don't know what's happening at your end of the I-5, but around here I use crocuses as a reliable
judge of Spring. yesterday I went by one yard on my commute, and the lawn was covered with
crocuses, their blooms not quite open yet.

A saw a number of lawns with them fully open yesterday.

Beach weather soon?

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Benjamin Lewis

Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.
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Benjamin Lewis said:

Ryan Cousineau said:

I don't know what's happening at your end of the I-5, but around here I use crocuses as a
reliable judge of Spring. yesterday I went by one yard on my commute, and the lawn was covered
with crocuses, their blooms not quite open yet.

A saw a number of lawns with them fully open yesterday.

Beach weather soon?

I think Vancouver's going to have a wet spring this time around. A rainy Saturday with nothing going
on can be a good time to get some routine bike maintenance in, anyway.

And maybe we'll get to appreciate the way the rhododendrons and azaleas sort of glow in the rain.

cheers, Tom

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"loki" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The smell is the same one that I used to smell hunting for early morels in the forest in the
springtime as a kid. There's a time when the cottonwoods are greening up, but haven't yet
leafed, that you need to go out into the woods looking for them. Or, at least there was: the
woods where we used to hunt for them is now a housing development.

You're right, that spring time smell hasn't happened yet, at least, not around here, but it's
coming. If nothing else, it'll come on a sunny late afternoon when I'm climbing the Lake Hills
Connector on the way home from work sometime in mid-March, probably. Maybe it's a smell of warm
budding cottonwood trees, or maybe it's something else, that I just haven't put my finger
(nose?) on yet.

I don't know what's happening at your end of the I-5, but around here I use crocuses as a reliable
judge of Spring. yesterday I went by one yard on my commute, and the lawn was covered with
crocuses, their blooms not quite open yet.

ALready! We don't see crocuses at least until april. In a way it makes more sense, since they're
often associated with easter. Crocuses are one of my favorites for that reason, they mean the
arrival of spring and they are very hardy- sprouting up when the ground is still cold and even
surviving a sudden snow.

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Keats) said:

In article said:

We're getting some nice springlike weather for at least the next few days- temps in the 40s. Of
course, it won't last and for sure we'll get walloped between now and the end of winter. And
with March coming in like a lamb, that means getting walloped at the end of the month!

But at least the days are getting longer, and that's a blessing by itself.

cheers, Tom

And once it gets to this point, it never gets as cold as it did in Jan, although we do sometimes get
freakishly cold march weather. March is such a horrible month! But it's so nice to see 5:30 come and
go and it's still light out.

Other signs of spring:

Baseball.

Garbage!

Potholes

Passover stuff in the grocery store

Jesus movies (on tv as well)

Mud

Huge enourmous puddles!

the sound of Motorcycles!