Hailing Spring! by sunnygreenwood

Hailing Spring!

Here are the daffodil shoots that I first noticed popping out of the ground yesterday morning. Yay!!! We had a major rain and hail storm starting at supper time last night. The rain went on for hours and these little hail stones were still all over the ground this morning. This is another one of those pics that I'm including to mark a milestone, not to celebrate great photography! ;-)

Many thanks for dropping by.

ps, thanks to howard for the cool title ;-)
We hail too recently. Those are pretty good ice chunks. I surprised they hadn't melted too overnight. Nice capture.
March 16th, 2012  
Hardy little things aren't they:)
March 16th, 2012  
A beautiful sign of Spring! and very detailed, Anne!
March 16th, 2012  
I love the colours and the detail/contrast of the old leaves and the new growth. Very nice Anne!
March 16th, 2012  
Very pretty capture. So cool how you caught the hail, too. It's so warm here, some of our daffodils are already in bloom.
March 16th, 2012  
Love the daffodil shoots and hail stones in the same shot!
March 16th, 2012  
Hailing spring
March 16th, 2012  
@steeler thanks howard! i've stolen that for my new title!
March 16th, 2012  
I love all the signs of spring that are showing up on 365
March 16th, 2012  
New life!
March 16th, 2012  
Sure sign of Spring :-)
March 16th, 2012  
I love that! I love spring! I love the color of green next to the brown, really shows that spring is almost here.. Pretty picture!
March 16th, 2012  
Just noticed ours too! Happened almost overnight! Yay!
March 16th, 2012  
Great capture! It gives the feel of being cold and wet just to look at it.
March 16th, 2012  
Cool at least you can see Spring on its way :)
March 16th, 2012  
So happy to hear that spring is making its way to your corner of the world.
March 16th, 2012  
Well that is a awesome title for this photo! It's so fun to see a flower shot on your page again, Anne! I miss your flowers so much. Can't wait to see these bloom.
March 16th, 2012  
Lucky those huge hailstones didn't flatten the plants. Great title.
March 16th, 2012  
Wow - your daffs are further along than mine are!
March 16th, 2012  
That is some big hail! Hope the car and the roof made it through safely!
March 16th, 2012  
Wow, that's a lot of hail!
March 16th, 2012  
I love your photo! I really tells a story and in this case, it's one I want to see. I have no green shoots. I'm green with envy!
March 16th, 2012  
love the bulbs shooting up amongst the hail
March 16th, 2012  
Great title!! Cool juxtaposition of the icy hail and the bright spring green. Mine are blooming in the driveway where it is warmer, but just up about 6" in the back of the yard. Won't be long now!
March 17th, 2012  
hope they stay around
March 17th, 2012  
Yay! Spring is on the way.
March 17th, 2012  
Wow! Beautiful
March 17th, 2012  
I hope you were under cover when they hit. That would hurt
March 17th, 2012  
Wow! If they were still around this morning, I wonder how big they were when they came down? Isn't it wonderful to see the daffodils!!! :0)
March 17th, 2012  
goodness... but clearly you can't keep a good shoot down! :)
March 17th, 2012  
What a lovely spring shot of new life pushing up through the earth!
March 17th, 2012  
Wow, huge hail! Love to see Spring arriving across the globe!
March 17th, 2012  
yay!!! your flowers will be back soon
March 17th, 2012  
this is a lovely, lovely shot, anne. i've never seen hail stones bigger than a grain of sand. well, i had, but i was driving and had to find a cover right away and didn't appreciate the hails at the time. i saw daffodil shoots too at the neighbourhood park, but they look plain in pictures if they're not wet. might go back there this morning.
March 17th, 2012  
it must be cold there! your spring shoots appear to be in good shape, no damage from the storm. they will probably take off and grow great guns now since you got a good rain:)
March 17th, 2012  
Great combination of spring and storm.
March 17th, 2012  
Lovely to see signs of Spring! Though the hailstones look very big!
March 17th, 2012  
Great capture :)
March 19th, 2012  
The seasons are colliding during the big change-over. :-) nice shot
March 20th, 2012  
Love that new growth and hail well. Great photo.
March 24th, 2012  
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