Friends in Houston informed me 2009-2010 was one of the coldest winters in Houston. Actually it was the sixth coldest winter on record for Houston. It did snow this winter and I’ve never seen so many snowmen in my life as there were in the front of Houston homes.
Often animals can signal changes in the seasons such as my old friend Punxsutawney Phil or the beauty of the monarch butterfly migrations from Mexico to California.
One of the most unusual signs of Spring is exactly every March 15th when the buzzards return to Hinckley Ohio with scientific precision. It’s amazing how these birds return on the exact same day each year.
[Credit to http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2430244
http://www.clemetparks.com/events/buzzards_sun.asp ]
Back in Michigan we used to wait to see robins as a sign of Spring.
In Houston, I realized it was spring and warming up when I began to see the first small lizards running about our garden. They are everywhere.
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