Late spring in the north

[Anne Kilmer]

Kenelm Philip wrote:

> I appreciate Stan's concern over my imminent flight from Fairbanks to avoid
> the coming ice age--but I think I'll stay right here instead. Interior
> Alaska, between the Brooks Range and the Alaska Range, was an unglaciated
> refugium during the last ice age. You people in the northern tier of the
> lower 48 states might rather think about buying some land near Fairbanks!
> 
> 							Ken Philip
> 
> 
> 

If global warming is real, my land in Florida will be underwater fairly 
soon, butterflies and all, unless Florida puts up a seawall, after the 
manner of the Netherlands.
If it's an ice age, my hill in Ireland will hold out for a while, unless 
the Gulf Stream continues its westward move, leaving us to face the 
realities of the Arctic Circle in our weather, as well as our daylight 
hours.
In Portugal, people were complaining/bragging about the unseasonably 
warm weather in late April. The bus driver said folks get pneumonia from 
such weather, and the sun is more likely to burn you in spring than in 
summer.
In Ireland, that same week, folks were gasping in the heat. Spring and 
summer flowers were blooming all at once. I have not yet heard the 
cuckoo, but he's been heard in Cork. And oh, as I look up, I see one, in 
the Lawson's cypress, being mobbed by smaller birds. Two cuckoos. Wow!
I have mixed feelings about them ... well, Felicity the pine marten will 
probably clean up after her. I have so instructed her.
Yesterday was sunny and warm. There was a ground frost this morning, and 
today will be sunny and warm as well. The robin ate one of my 
Green-Veined Whites, Pieris napi, yesterday, but there are still plenty. 
He is an ungrateful creature; he had plenty of bacon rinds.
Right before my eyes! Whee! Go, robin, go, butterfly.
Cheers
Anne Kilmer
Mayo, Ireland


 
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