On Monday I went for a walk with the dogs in Abercrombie and found that the blueberries are finally blooming. This is another of those spring events that I note and it tells me if spring is early or not. Generally the blueberries first blossom in mid to late April, and they have bloomed as early as February and March. So this year they are late. Normally by this time the salmonberries are getting ready to bloom, but yesterday I checked on them too and they are even budding yet. So it is a late spring this year. That said, it is a weird spring because on high we barely have any snow left. Yesterday when I went for a ski I could only go to the top of the jibber. Normally I am still skiing to almost the road. The first blueberry blossoms usually coincide with the max snow pack on the mountain. But this year the first blossoms are a month later than the Max snowpack on the mountain.
Patrick
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