It's Summer in Anchorage

Back on April 28, I set out the criteria for determining when spring had arrived in Anchorage. It is only roughly related to the calendar.





Three weeks later I'm saying that summer is here because the tulips are out (though sad to say our dozen or so regular tulips of the last five or six years didn't come up at all) and the birch leaves have burst out. It could still cool down again, but we are out of the brown season and into the green. The arrival of mosquitoes is another sign. You can also see the difference between our rock garden today and April 28 by clicking the link above.