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Jeez Lava you have put so much energy into your lawn. I am no lawn expert. A couple of ideas. Make sure you keep mowing so the crabgrass doesn't reseed. About this time of year it grows those tall shoots with the triangles that have the seed. Make sure more seeds don't fall down to make next season even worse. Then maybe just let it be. Green is green. We bought 15 acres of forest up our road about 12 years ago. Clear cut a portion for views. I never seeded or did anything. Just mow it once a month or so. It now has a pretty nice lawn. Not perfect grass but mowed it looks fine to me. Maybe your lawn would look the same? Looks like it faces south to get mid day sun? Here's a pic of the lawn up the road.

We own a 15 acre parcel looking over Newfound Lake. I don't do anything to the grass, just mow once a month. With frequent rains this summer it looks darn good. Anyone want to picnic or camp on it? Free to any AMWX members! Private night under the stars for sure!

My fields have so many wild flowers right now. They seem to have exploded the past week. It gets really hard to cut when it gets really high and I love the look of nice cut low fields but I know how important the flowers are to the bees/insects/butterflies. Bottom line I'll wait to mow and leave patches for the wildlife.

Alex, everything is so late, still waiting for my first 80F. I guess the Lupine Festival is a bit like the Cherry Blossoms in DC. Each year is different, this is certainly a late one!

Last year we started some Lupine by seed. Started the plants indoors and mid-summer they were big enough to put along the stone wall right across the road from our house. They came back up this year. Gave them some Miracle Grow earlier this spring and they have taken off. Not quite at peak but getting close.

This cool, wet season is really making my lawn green......okay I'll be honest. I hired a company this year to fertilize. They came earlier this spring and applied the fertilizer with weed killer. My lawn looks fantastic but I know it's not good for the environment. I asked if they can use an organic product and they said yes. So going forward this season this is what they will use. Apple trees are peaking with blossoms this year. It's a great year for the blossoms. Some years I don't have many blossoms and some years I do. So lots of apples for the deer. Last summer was very dry as I missed almost every thunderstorm. Wonder if they were stressed and that helped this season? Don't trees/flowers produce more fruit after a stressful time. Will have to Google that... Pictures of the front lawn and a few of the apple trees.

Just finished the first mowing of the fields and the 2nd mow of the lawn. Apple trees are just starting to leaf out. If anyone likes mowing hit me up. Actually putting on headsets with some music and riding my 52" zero turn is enjoyable.

Leaf out is around 25-50% as of today Sat 18th. Usually, things are pretty much full green in my area by the 20th so running quite a bit behind. Looking at this picture the trees on my hill seem further along than around Newfound Lake. Maybe the cold water is keeping the temperatures a bit cooler down below? I don't know

A mistake I sometimes see with people putting down grass seed is that they just sprinkle it on top or lightly rake it in. A thin coating of top soil over the grass seed and keeping it moist without letting it dry out goes a long way. Soil temperature really helps too.

My pussy willow tree looks kind of similar to this right now. Past the fuzzy soft stage and not leafed out yet.

Is this the same bamboo that I see down in Maryland? What a disaster down there. When I grew up there was none. Then people started planting it. It spreads like crazy with roots that make it almost impossible to stop. It seems everywhere now. About 10 years ago the neighbors next to my folk's house decided to plant a small amount to camouflage their trash can container. It has spread rapidly covering up about 1/4 of the backyard going now into my folk's property. They have hired professionals to try to irritate them, even brought in a small backhoe but they can't get all the roots and it's out of control. It is now banned in the state. Be careful with this stuff.

Wow on the grass green up. It was totally brown just 2 days ago and now the yard is green. I have never seen it change so fast. These endless hours of high dews and temps are doing their work. Next up is the forest. Still waiting on forsythia or those Norway maples then everything goes all at once.

Unless I'm reading the recon reports wrong the recon went thru the eye very recently and found 952.5mb.

Mark, can you believe it. Some mood flakes falling right now. 4.5" on the day!

GOES 16 has the center moving NNE at the moment

2.5" never got below 1 mile vis today. Mostly very small flakage. Finally in past 15 minutes a few bonafide medium flakes mixed in. Sky very bright. Peak wind gust 14mph. Town plow still has not bothered to go by. Kids could easily had school. Total disasta...unless something backs in from the east.

1pm. Very light snow and snow grains. Snow started at 8am and after 5 hours 2". Intense band to my east wants to come west but falls apart. Big bust incoming? Starting to look like that.

Watching WMUR news at noon here in NH. Reporting 14 people without power in the state. I thought it might be an error but just checked the Eversource map. 2 customers without power in their service region

27.4F Light snow, light winds. Vis 1.25 miles. Poor snow growth 1.5" new (Been snowing for 4 hours now)

27.5F light snow Vis 1 mile. Wind north 4 gusts to 14mph. Poor snow growth. 1/2" over the past 2 hours.

29f very light snow. Heavy dusting. Expected 2/3 inches by now according to models. Get this stuff north please.

Lots of people saw it all over New England. My neighbor swears it landed just behind his house! He said it went down just behind his trees. Highly doubtful. I told him he should take the day off and go into his woods and find it. A 1 pound meteorite is worth about a million bucks!

Looking at that shot I am trying to figure out the city light sources. To the extreme right must be Berlin. Maybe Littleton on the left? Then on the far horizon that must be Montreal. Years ago I did a winter overnight edu trip at the summit. A noreaster was developing down in the mid-Atlantic and the cirrus shield had made it over SNE. Boston's lights were quite visible reflecting up to the underside of the clouds. Actually, this would be a neat question to the observers. If a cirrus shield was over NYC would they be able to see the cirrus lit that far away. I think it would be possible. For some reason the "how far can you see" question has always interested me. Edit. Maybe the horizon lights are Burlington?

KP index a 5 so I went to the top of the hill for a look. Definite brightening on the north horizon but with the naked eye I could not make out any detail. Need to be able to see to fairly low to the north to notice. Moon rises around 9pm which will probably kill anything after that....

I went up to the top of my hill last night and couldn't see anything. My friend Dave setup at the foot of Newfound Lake and with a time exposure caught them very faintly. Like the ones I briefly saw last week they are usually far on the north horizon. The key lately is you really need to have an unobstructed north view without any city lights in that direction... Here's the pic he posted on his site...