Anchorage's First Day of Spring

What factors figure in determining the first day of spring? The temperature is one; 65F in the shade on the deck is fine.













Blue sky is important.










Sunshine in which to sit, have lunch, read.





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Unstick the rake from the ice in the last snow patch dumped from the roof in January onto the north side of the house











Then rake up the leaves that have mulched the rock garden.













To expose some green.















Then put all the leaves into the compost pile.