February 25, 2017
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Looking Confused
Sevenling Blue Sky
Blue sky novelty
Winter heat index
Snow melt meritAardvarks in South Bend
Flying elephants
February ticksGlobal warming comes
This poem is a sevenling. This form consists of 2 stanzas of 3 lines each of which contains an element of 3 (3 details, 3 names, 3 possibilities, 3 statements, etc.). The 2nd stanza may be connected or contrasting the 1st stanza. The final 7th line should act as a narrative summary. There are no metrical rules but because it is a short poem it should have some meter, rhyme, or rhythm. The tone should be offbeat or disturbing.
The weather is unseasonably warm. The plants and animals are confused. My immune system is confused. The sap in the maple trees is running and will soon stop because it is too warm. If that happens the price of real maple syrup will become so high it will be out of the reach of the common man. We don't use maple syrup (aka "toxic ooze") but others do. I feel for those pancake connoisseurs out there. The cherry trees are preparing to flower. If that happens and we get a frost there will be no cherries this year. I can only imagine that many of the cherry orchards will be put to the torch and go out of business since they are still trying to recover from a couple of years ago when the crop was destroyed. I like my cherries. I will be very sad if we lose the tart cherries. The thought of no cherry pies this year brings a tear to my eye. Perhaps I'm just in the dumps because the weather has been so fickle this month. We go from mild to hot to cool to hot to cold... I am ready for spring and February has been nothing more than a big tease!
Comments (12)
And this morning it's 29 degrees and snow on the ground. The other day, I left the house in thin pants and a short-sleeved shirt with just a sweater in case the breeze was too cool. By the time I got home, the temperature had dropped nearly 20 degrees and I was shivering. I was only gone for two or three hours!
We have snow on the ground today!
Oh yes! It has been in the low 70's this past week but predicted to be from a low of 31 to a high of 44 tomorrow.
Yep. Fickle to the end. This February matched the warmest day in February set in 1983... We had to break out the extra blanket last night!
My friend has a pick-your-own blueberry farm in So. IN. A few years ago when this happened, they had no crop at all. I'm praying that doesn't happen to her this year. They work so hard, and they need the income. She came to visit last week, and said her son already found a tick. Your poem reminded me of that.
I'm worried too. I really hope there isn't a repeat of 3 years ago when all the fruit crops were damaged or destroyed.
I think global warming has become global confusion! Last year's el nino was supposed to bring a wet winter, and we had 1/3 the normal rainfall -- this year's la nina, supposed to bring a dry warm winter has, instead, brought the worst storms I can remember! Aardvarks, flying elephants and February ticks indeed!
The weather has been very confusing. I see a shift in seasons with winter being delayed onset yet lingering longer into when we expect spring to arrive (not withstanding the odd lull). Last year we had snow in April. It has been strange this year too. I'm just an observer and not a meteorologist but I think many of them are scratching their heads in puzzlement.
The winter of 1965/66 in IN. was unusual too. Very little snow. We were disappointed as we had just moved here from So.Cal. and wanted snow. Another unusual winter was 1958 in Cal. It rained lots more than usual. I remember because we were married in March, and marveled at the beautiful green hills on our way to our new home in San Luis Obispo.
The weather has always been unpredictable from time to time... I remember the blizzard of 1969 - the snow was so deep and the drifts so high that we could walk onto the roof. (Not that we were allowed to do so!) I think we must have missed 3 weeks of school in a row. The blizzard of 1977 was pretty awful too.
Here in TX I refer to this as yo-yo weather. Saturday, or was it Friday the air conditioner was on as it hit 90°. Then it drops and early morning I turned the furnace on to take the chill off the house, then turned it off. Today the humidity is here.
We haven't had that big of a change in temps but who says it won't happen?! We had biting cold weather on Saturday and then up to 50 today. Tomorrow is thunderstorms and heavy rains... They always say that if you don't like the weather give it a few hours and it will change!