Boing!

It is quite springy in NC these days...Boing!

It seems that most of my past few posts have been about the weather or something weather-related.  As I've said before, spring and autumn are my favorite seasons.  I think I may have also mentioned that there really is no change in season in Singapore.  There are only two: monsoon season (occurs twice a year) and non-monsoon season.  This means that it is green year round and the temperatures don't fluctuate much.  Living all of my life in regions where there are four distinct seasons I really miss the changes when I don't get to experience them in Singapore.

This afternoon Alan and I took advantage of some nice pre-rain spring weather and headed up to Duke Gardens.  It is a nice walk around the gardens.  Some of the trees are starting to bloom:

Others are already blooming:

There are also some amazing flowers in bloom:

As I mentioned, it is a nice walk through the gardens.  If you haven't been before it is worth the trip.  If you want, there is a duck pond so bring some stale bread and feed the ducks, they looked pretty hungry when were there...not really.

They also have great walking paths...including this awesome zigzag bridge:

The zigzag bridge is worth the trip alone...mainly because zigzag is so fun to say and terribly fun for me to type.

Speaking of spring...a friendly reminder to spring your clocks one hour forward to enter Daylight Savings Time.  I could write an entire blog on how ridiculous I think DST is...maybe I will and I'll just save that for later.