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Perhaps we were a bit hasty with our previous declaration of spring's arrival. Occasional snow showers continue to fall, and it's too soon to leave windows open much past sunset.
While we're waiting for most of the local foliage to green up, those bright colors bursting from the apple trees around our office are hopeful signs of spring's steady advance.
Greetings, Shoyeido friends:
It's been awhile since we've blogged or wall-posted - as Mama used to say, falling behind on your blogging/wall posting is never a good thing (she didn't really) - but in our defense, the silence has been for a pretty good reason: we're working on several major new projects, one of which is spiffy new, modern website! While we're still a little ways away from being able to make "official" announcements or share sneak peaks, we did want to dive into the pool here and say "Hi" to all of our loyal followers. And we'll strive to be better about the blogging, too.
As the headline of this post says, here are a few pics of our town's current springtime weather rollercoaster. The dry weather shots were snapped on a hike last weekend along Boulder's scenic Dakota Ridge open space; the snowy scene image was taken just this morning.
Looking toward the northeast from the Mt. Sanitas trail, North Boulder and the Boulder Reservoir spread out below.
One of Boulder's many anvil-shaped boulders. Mt. Sanitas trail.
A typical Front Range sunset of clear skies and wispy lenticular clouds.
Waking up today to a foot of heavy, wet snow.
It's a snowy day here in Boulder - the snowiest October day since 1997. Here's the scene around our offices today.
The entrance to our lot:
Jeff, our general manager, snaps a few pictures of the wintry scene:
This tree shed its leaves just in time to become an intricate snow sculpture:
One of the most intriguing plants that grows wild in our area is variety of ground cherry. It has uninspiring flowers earlier in the summer, but then it develops these interesting pods, each of which contains a little fruit about half an inch in diameter.
In a few weeks, these pods will be completely dried out into papery translucent lantern shapes. They remind me of the lanterns in this photo of the Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto, taken by photographer Ad Blankestijn.
