It's been phenomenal weather for a February, I can't ever remember having this much sun and mild temperatures in February, heck these flowers just bloomed in my backyard first noticed yesterday... Don't ever remember seeing flowers in bloom in February in the state of Ohio... I looked them up and think they are Crocus, and some of my Daffodils are 8 -12" high and look like some of them are ready to bud...
I remember working the winter of '85 in the mountains of WV and met a kid a little younger than myself while running phone wire around his house/cabin and he told me that his old hillbilly grandfather told him he could do that on the "nice day in February"... Yeah, the old timer said there is always at least 1 nice day in February and I've been keeping track since and yeah he has been right so far...
With a mild January I figured we'd get hammered in February but hasn't happen, and remember one mid-March during the late '90s we have a blizzard snowing blowing around 3' of snow...
BTW, those dark brown thingys are walnuts hulls left behind by the squirrels, these flowers grow under a black walnut tree...
Since I started this thread yesterday, seen a robin in the yard yesterday, but that really doesn't matter because depending on the severity of winter not all robins migrate south, I've seen small flocks of them in the February snow before... A true sign of an early spring is timing of the first peeper frog choirs, earliest I remember was 3rd week of March...
A buddy came over last week and we were talking about this mild weather and early spring, etc., and he was also shocked when I showed him the bloomed Crocuses... He too had never seen an outdoor flower bloom in February neither...
Some of my Daffodils bloomed today and buddy said spring peepers have started near his house this evening....
