{"id":370,"date":"2007-01-21T01:39:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T06:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/01\/21\/longing-for-spring\/"},"modified":"2010-10-01T00:56:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T04:56:46","slug":"longing-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2007\/01\/21\/longing-for-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing for Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Join Green Thumb Sunday\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/104\/306398715_49775ad925_o.gif\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/garden\/2006\/06\/23\/green-thumb-sunday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><br \/>Join<\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, as some of you know right now I&#8217;m having a blog party over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feverishthoughts.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\">Tricia&#8217;s Musings<\/a> to celebrate my first year of blogging. Yep, Tricia&#8217;s Musings is one year old! <\/p>\n<div class=\"912745ff53504cd4aef8ff3ef7b9aa95\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* gardengrows_300x250inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4054669721\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m having a pseudo ICE garden party over there. Go have a look at the photos of the ice garden and the ice bar. MMMMM lots of chocolate over there too. Yum!Ok I know I can&#8217;t complain about our winter here at all. Others have had much worse, particularly people who usually have great winters &#8230; but winter has finally arrived as of this week. We&#8217;ve had snow, finally, and now very cold temperatures. Right now it&#8217;s -12 c (10.4 F). Brrrr!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m jonesing for Spring. Here&#8217;s a flower, a tulip and other spring flowers, that I&#8217;m longing to see in just a few short months:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dragonden\/115839620\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ext-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" alt=\"Red Tulip\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/39\/115839620_0c2dca7ba9.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that only a portion of the Green Thumb Sunday members have been playing lately. I know that while I&#8217;ve been posting regularly I haven&#8217;t been visiting as often as I should. My reasons are that I&#8217;ve been too busy trying to raise money to keep the bills paid (I&#8217;m home sick with no income coming in so I&#8217;m doing paid posts to earn some money), and I&#8217;ve been very ill lately.<\/p>\n<p>I am wondering why others aren&#8217;t playing though. Have you lost interest? Or is it just because it&#8217;s winter and you don&#8217;t have photos to post? Remember photos do not have to be current. They also don&#8217;t have to be of a garden or a plant. It could be a nice scene from nature, something outdoors &#8230; use your imagination.<\/p>\n<p>I created this meme so that we could show off our creative talents and our gardens. A great bonus that we get from interacting with each other is that we get a boost in traffic, some extra links to our sites, and perhaps some regular visiters too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go through the list and people that haven&#8217;t played for at least two months or haven&#8217;t even updated thier site in the last month will probably be removed. 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