There is a patch of snowdrops in bloom a few blocks from me (on that sloped stretch of 214th Street between Indian Road and Seaman Avenue, for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
roadnotes and anyone else who knows the neighborhood). Snowdrops tend to be the first flowers of the year, but this is at least a fortnight early even for snowdrops, even in a mild year.
Weirder than that, there's a hyacinth in bloom uphill of that, tucked in next to a building. Magenta, with florets about halfway around the spike. I assume the heating system is leaking, but where snowdrops are surprising, a hyacinth is absurdly out of sync. (This is a full-sized hyacinth, not one of the little grape hyacinths.)
(It's been a gray, foggy few days; so far this weekend we have done some more decluttering, and played a bunch of Scrabble.)
roadnotes and anyone else who knows the neighborhood). Snowdrops tend to be the first flowers of the year, but this is at least a fortnight early even for snowdrops, even in a mild year.Weirder than that, there's a hyacinth in bloom uphill of that, tucked in next to a building. Magenta, with florets about halfway around the spike. I assume the heating system is leaking, but where snowdrops are surprising, a hyacinth is absurdly out of sync. (This is a full-sized hyacinth, not one of the little grape hyacinths.)
(It's been a gray, foggy few days; so far this weekend we have done some more decluttering, and played a bunch of Scrabble.)