For All Those Living In The MidWest

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I wandered afar last evening and found myself in North Carolina where flowrgirl has actually seen and captured a bit of sunlight. There are shadows and everything. I have forgotten just how bright the day could get.
The Yankee sun is much more of a slacker or has an abhorrence for wild swings of lighting display. Could be on even billing...

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  1. aimsMarch 16, 2009 at 8:12 AM

    At least you have some warmth down there.

    Here we just have gray skies and
    -18C. Sigh.

    Spring looks a long long way away.

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  2. Viewtiful_JustinMarch 16, 2009 at 8:17 AM

    It's gorgeous in Chicagoland today! It's almost 60 and blue skies!!! About. Freaking. Time.

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  3. Teresa aka TessMarch 16, 2009 at 8:29 AM

    It's 52 here today in the center of Kansas and suppose to be 82 tomorrow. I took a nmice walk yesterday without a winter coat. Yahh!! Welcome Spring!!!!

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  4. UnknownMarch 16, 2009 at 9:14 AM

    aims--not warm enough...I can see you and I will have to do a little Spring jig:>)

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  5. RudeeMarch 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM

    It's very sunny here, if a little cool. I won't be fooled though, I'm sure winter still has a little something in store, not today though, and not tomorrow either. Today will be 57 and sunny, tomorrow, 65. I feel myself coming down with Irish fever. Careful-it may be catchy.

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  6. UnknownMarch 16, 2009 at 10:23 AM

    Am not too far from flowrgirl (great blog by the way) and am experiencing, for me, the perfect day: cloudy and rainy. Will find me crawled up on the sofa with my latest read.

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  7. Rosaria WilliamsMarch 16, 2009 at 10:26 AM

    We have built houses and malls to fend off the weather.
    Then, we brought in music and flowers and moving pictures to cocoon us until we could get back out and play with the birds. Summer is just around the corner. Long live James Brown.

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  8. ArgentMarch 16, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    Over here in good old Blighty, it was bright, bright, bright!

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  9. GailMarch 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM

    Sun is good and so is James Taylor

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  10. AnonymousMarch 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM

    82 degrees and getting warmer here in sunny san diego! I do miss my home town of Chicago though :(

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  11. PyzahnMarch 18, 2009 at 2:51 PM

    Yesterday in the flatlands...2 hrs. in the garden with my dogs, 77 degrees, and a cardinal serenading me...heaven.

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