So what is blooming on my dining table in between...sugar rolls! Sharing the yummy fun to all, especially on these cold days..with tea or coffee..for some warm up fun!

It's official! Had enough Winter - Ready for Spring!

Anne : If you can just get thru the Holidays winter is actually shorter than you think.
Its about a month and a half til January, after that comes February which is always short and March for many of us is the first time we see perennials emerging.

I just don't like cold weather at all. I'd certainly move back down to south Florida in a heartbeat if it hadn't been ruined by too many people and indiscriminate building.

My favorite carnivore, Pinguicula is in bloom:



Orchid holdouts, moved from outdoors to indoors two days ago..luckily blooms still holding over a month now:



Don't know if this one will manage to bloom..been waiting for it since September while it was outdoors..hoping it will still try..

Tarev, what is a Pinguicula? It looks lovely. Do you feed it steaks?

LOL...I too really like it. Never have seen one that I know of.

Pinguicula is a carnivorous plant. It attracts fungus gnats and other flying things that makes the mistake of sticking to its leaves. Well, I guess it gets fed with steak..fungus gnat steak

Tarev, the light from that big window gives them that need edge. Love the blooms.
Jo Ann, don't forget that Ann started this thread with blooms back in January. If history repeats itself that's less than a month and a half away.

Mike. I just realized the sun starts to come back in a few weeks.

Less than a month to go before we begin the trek to spring!

Oh no!

LOLOL Well...you can get back and we will give you the photo show...its not all bad.

Sunday Dec. 21. I cant wait. If I remember its January before I really notice sun up in the AM. .

ge1836 said:Mike. I just realized the sun starts to come back in a few weeks.

Can't come soon enough for me. I REALLY don't handle winter well.

Karen

By January 14th it's light at 5 PM though vehicles do still need lights.

I get through winter in two week spurts and "they" say by 2/10 the worst of winter has passed (though that hasn't always been true).

March 8th the time changes and we can breathe a sigh of relief but still may get nasty weather and some of us will still get snow...and crocuses!

It's the nasty weather and lack of color (beyond white or brown/green grass) that I find so depressing. I feel like I'm under some sort of nature imposed lockdown.

I totally hate the cold, but I think it's the constant darkness that gets to me most. I actually bought myself a bright light therapy light, and I use it. When we "fall back" in autumn, my internal clock doesn't reset. Whereas I get up around 5 to 6 a.m. in summer, in winter it's more like 4 to 5 a.m. I am up hours before the sun when the rest of the world is asleep. As a result I usually fall asleep trying to read way too early in the evening. Very depressing.


Karen

My Wils Hilda Plumtree 'Purple Wings' is in bloom..like a ray of sunshine



Edited to add photos taken today 25Nov2014