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the magnolias are in bloomCanon EOS Rebel T3, Canon 75-300mm lens
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I envy you the shot, here in Poland we still have winter, like real one and it's almost the end of March, a few days after calendar spring :/
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i talked to my family in sweden this morning, and it's the same there... my sister-in-law was almost in tears because she was so sick of the cold and the snow
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In Poland it is said that during the past few months we had the smallest amount of sunlight since few dozen years O.o 
There's a polish folk tradition that on the first day of calenndar spring, people take a trip to the nearest river, lake, pond etc. with a straw puppet dressed up like the lady winter. They set the puppet on fire and throw it to the water as a symbol of chasing away the bad winter. This year the tradition couln'd be executed because all water reservoirs were frozen
...spring
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it's not a good sign when winter prevents you from symbolically chasing the damn thing away
here, have some of our sunshine... we have plenty of it
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Thanks! I'll need it because we are having a snow blizzard at the moment 
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seriously? that's this year's capture? oh, come on... and I froze to death today standing in snow and fighting for that half-tree-photo
btw... you had some beautiful light out there 
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yup, that was last week
i'm actually a little bit jealous of you northern european people... i know the winters are long and cruel, but the joy of spring arriving is unbeatable. here it's just "meh... the magnolias are in bloom" and two weeks later it's all over
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it always sounds so charmy when you don't live at a given place. everything is different, than in your own climate and you're a little bit jealous (like I am with the magnolia stuff 
on the other hand, I'm the kind of person who doesn't suffer from autumn/winter depression, but from spring depression. I like it when days are short and the world is still dark when I arrive at work and when I leave 
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haha, i'm exactly like that too; they call it reversed S.A.D (seasonal affective disorder).
people with SAD get their symptoms in the fall and it lasts through the winter.
mine (and yours i guess 
we start feeling the signs in the early spring, and they last (for me at least) all through the summer, and end in the fall (and as i may have mentioned to you before, the summers are LONG here, from late april to early november).
i was born and raised in sweden and i miss the darkness there, but i also miss the light (and very, very short!) summers... probably because of the climate here, which i will never get used to.
ha, there's a swedish saying that roughly translated goes: what is hidden in snow, will be revealed in thaw (it sounds better in swedish because it rhymes 
i still to this day remember the yucky smell of frozen dog poop melting in the spring
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yes, that's exactly how it is with me. I hate summer light and heat 
I see your point. I remember times when in Poland summer temperature was around 30 degrees in sun. right now it's up to 50 
and, like you said, it just started melting. just watch where you put your feet and try not to 
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yep, it's happening, spring is here
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Glad it's happening somewhere!
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you on the east coast? i feel ya, i grew up in sweden where the winters are long and hard and dark and spring and summer lasts for about a total of 3 months, then it's straight back into 8 months of darkness... which i actually didn't mind, i love rain and cold weather... not a huge fan of snow though
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Yep. Delaware. It is slowly getting warmer but we were still down to 24 F last night. I've heard that about Sweden. 
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and that's what i DON'T like about california: the lack of variation.
yeah, spring is nice... but it lasts for a couple of weeks tops and then BOOM it's summer and 90 degree heat that lasts until the end of october, sometimes longer. then we have the beautiful fall for a month, then "winter" which is basically the same as fall but without the pretty leaves and then the magnolias start blooming and february and by april it is hell again (i HATE heat!)
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