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Bloodroot blooming at Independence Marsh, 31 March 2024 (photograph by Kate St. John)

6 April 2024

This week March went out like a lamb and April got here in like a lion.

After photographing home flowers Easter morning I traveled out to Independence Marsh in Beaver County. I didn’t discover my goal chook, rusty blackbirds, however I did discover spring flowers. Dutchmans breeches, cutleaf toothwort, bloodroot () above and the primary tiny bloom on capturing star () beneath.

Early bloom on capturing star, Independence Marsh, 31 March 2024 (photograph by Kate St. John)

As quickly as March was over, issues went incorrect. I ought to have identified after I noticed this troubled sky of mammatus clouds on Saturday, 30 March. Not a great signal.

Mammatus clouds presage every week of rain, snow and graupel in Pittsburgh, 30 March 2024 (photograph by Kate St. John)

It rained and rained and rained on April 1-3, setting a document of two.68 inches on April 2. Streams and basements had been hit onerous whereas the rain was falling. The rivers rose, as proven at at Duck Hole on 4 April with the Monongahela River at car parking zone degree. (extra flood pictures and movies right here)

Duck Hole car parking zone — A River Runs Via It — 4 April 2024, 7:19am ET

Later that very same day, Thursday 4 April, the temperature fell and so did graupel.

Graupel falls o n4 April 2024 (video by Kate St. John)

At this time it’s chilly however the precipitation has lastly stopped.

In the meantime ….Keep in mind these stunning tulips I posted final Sunday, Easter morning?

BEFORE –> Tulips on N. Neville St on Easter morning, 31 March 2024 (photograph by Kate St. John)

And keep in mind the deer I noticed between two highrises in Oakland on 24 March?

A deer shopping the backyard at a highrise in Pittsburgh, 5:30am 24 March 2024 (photograph by Kate St. John)

Effectively, the 2 met up and the tulips didn’t fare nicely.

AFTER –> Identical tulips eaten by deer on N. Neville St as of two April 2024 (photograph by Kate St. John)

That was on N Neville Avenue. Right here’s N Craig Avenue.

BEFORE –> Tulips in entrance of a highrise on N Craig St, Easter morning, 31 March 2024 (photograph by Kate St. John)
AFTER –> Tulips eaten by deer on N Craig St, 4 April 2024 (photograph by Kate St. John)

Deer harm has come to the “asphalt jungle.”

(pictures by Kate St. John)

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