Sunday Wildflowers, on Monday. #12

Posted on March 30, 2026 by

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Hi everyone! Yep, I’m here again. Things got a bit mixed up yesterday so I didn’t get my Wildflowers post published at it’s usual time. So, it’s here today instead.

I hope you enjoy the different colors chosen for brightening up another winter day for us here in the north. We have another snowstorm on the way for us, though it is possible the main part of it might miss us.

Purple Vetch.

I certainly hope so. The snow we had is slowly melting and even though we didn’t have much snow, it is taking a long time to melt, even with some nice days.

Three-Toothed Cinquefoil

But it still freezes so thoroughly at night that it takes until mid afternoon to start melting again, then it starts freezing again about 3 hours later.

Orange Hawkweed

Oh well, eventually spring will arrive. Real spring, not calendar spring. Enjoy the flowers, have a great week and God bless!

Steve. ©2026 Steve McLeod.

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12 Comments on “Sunday Wildflowers, on Monday. #12”

  1. The flowers are beautiful and remind me of summer, yet to come. It is subzero F at night and still below freezing during the day. But we are gaining almost 7 minutes of daylight a day and have twilight an hour plus before sunrise and the same after sunset. The sunlight makes such a difference even though it is cold and there is about 6 feet of snow on the ground. The snowplows are out clearing the roads and pushing the snow back off the road so it will not melt on the road, when it starts melting. We hope for a gradual thawing so we will not experience much flooding. It has been a very harsh winter with extremely cold temperatures and much snow. Hopefully, when May comes, we will have the leaves pop out in a couple of days and summer arrive, along with the midnight sun. Trust your storm did not arrive.

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    • Wow, that’s a lot of snow, we hardly have any snow this winter, even if it melted fast it wouldn’t do much. This could mean a dry spring which would be bad, though spring rains could change that. We only got about 2 inches of snow from that storm which was nice. Tomorrow should be 39 so much of that new snow should melt. Have a great day!😊☕☕

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      • Two inches of snow is not much. Hopefully, it will not snow much more. But my preference would be snow over cold rain. Where I live, we are a semi arid desert and we normally get 11 inches of water a year. Our snow is very dry, until it starts to melt. Enjoy your day!

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      • Yes, early spring rains here are always so cold, I would prefer more snow to that. I didn’t realize it was so dry up there. I always figured it was just heavily forested area everywhere.

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      • We have many climates and terrain in Alaska. The Aleutian Islands are a 1000 miles long, do not get snow and are treeless, some of them are also in tomorrow. Southeast Alaska has a rain forest and occasional snow. It is huge, with much wilderness. Where I live it is very dry, especially in the winter, as the moisture in the air is low. We have many rivers, lakes and of course frigid temperatures. Furniture will dry out and if there is glue holding it together, it may also dry out. Permafrost is very common and ice may be down in the ground about two feet, so basements are not a good idea. If they are not built for the permafrost, the heat will permeate the ground and the house will break up like it is on a pond. My house has several feet of gravel and then sheets of styrofoam to keep the ground cold, in the crawl space. This winter has been brutal for the cold and is the coldest since this city was founded in 1904. Last year, we had the second warmest winter ever recorded. My presence is the warmer winter rather than the extreme cold for months. But summer is coming! Yes! Enjoy your day!

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      • Now there’s something I never knew, I thought those islands, at least most of them, were forested. Wow, that must be tough on furniture! Even here I have some pine furniture with doors that will shrink in winter when it is so dry, so I finally bought a humidifier and that seems to have stopped that problem. But I guess it’s worse up there. I can see why basements would not be a good option, I never did like basements. I always said if I built my own home there would be no basement! Wow, coldest since 1904, that’s an amazing record. Thanks, have a blessed Easter weekend!

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      • Happy Resurrection Day! Many blessings to you as well. I would appreciate your prayers, the last 3 days have been the worst I have had this year.

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