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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, this got me curious, so I had to go look.  We're at 40.55 and being at 
3,000' would explain why we are still working on seeing anything spring like 
except the redbud.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Gene GeRue wrote:
> > On Apr 5, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Jeanne Driese wrote:
> >
> > > Bev & Gene,
> > > Here in NE TN we are about two weeks behind Bev and a week behind
> > > Gene,  I am still enjoying the bulbs and the fruit trees, the
> > > redbuds are beginning to show and the dogwoods are still small
> > > little balls.  With all the rain and lack of sun they may take a bit
> > > longer,
> >
> > That is interesting, in that our latitudes are almost the same. I
> > would have expected very similar natural cycles. Google Earth shows
> > that I am at 36.44N latitude and that the Skeen scoundrel skulks
> > around at about 36.35
> >
> > I will report on when I see the first dogwood blooms. That will be a
> > good comparison.
>
> Yeah, it would.  As you can see from my siggie, we are at 34.5 or so of
> latitude, 2 full degrees south of you.  I believe one degree is about 69
> miles, so I am almost the equivalent of being 140 miles south of you.
> That sounds about right for James and Denise, too.  The old saying of "a
> mile a minute" is true.
> Latitude is interesting to think about.  Yeah, you have the sun's
> influence, but more importantly, you have ocean currents and large
> bodies of water that influence things, too.  Chicago and Rome Italy are
> on the same latitude, as are Athens, Greece and Washington DC.
> There are a slew of websites that talk about stuff like that.  When you
> think about Rome and Chicago being on equal lats, you can more easily
> imagine an ice sheet over Europe.
> Anyway, since the rain last night, even more stuff has bloomed.  I see a
> few more tulips and hyacinths, the dogwoods are even more open and
> getting more 'white', and even my Sweet Shrub has a few 'blossoms'
> showing.  My favorite, though, is the Candytuft.  I love it.
>
> Bev, in the rainy, fog-pocketed ridges of northwest Georgia at 55 degrees.
>
> --
> BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
> 34.498N 85.076W    Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky
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