Our View: Spring’s arrival should not be ignored
As we learned in school, the date of the start of the seasons are determined by science.
Possumhaw: All-American pastimes
Spring is unpredictably crazy. Nine days ago it was sleeting at the Mississippi State baseball game. There’s something very wrong when a March day leaves ice pellets on your baseball cap.
Our View: Ahh, the joys of spring
Turning the calendar page from March to April seems to create an air of optimism when it comes to spring.
Our View: Spring: a season of optimism
Monday was the day for recovery for folks in the flower business.
Thawing out: Warmer temperatures lift economy
Spring’s thaw is reviving the economy, too.
A recent batch of government and business reports show a U.S. economy emerging from winter’s deep freeze.
Miss. farmers to plant more cotton and soybeans
With corn prices down, Mississippi farmers are likely to plant more cotton than 2013’s record low acreage. But soybeans are still king, with almost as many acres expected to be planted than all other crops combined.
Photos: A celebration of Spring
A couple of weeks after the official arrival of Spring, people all across the Golden Triangle celebrated the season by taking in some of the seven major events held Saturday.
Our view: Saturday: The REAL first day of spring
Officially, the date is March 20, but it is our opinion that the first day of Spring does not arrive until you get off the sofa, out of the house and enjoy some outdoor fun.
With that in mind, Saturday is looking a lot like the first day of Spring here in the Golden Triangle.
British orchid display provides hint of spring
The weather outside is frightful — it has been for weeks, with parts of the country experiencing the worst floods in decades — but it’s positively warm inside the Princess of Wales Conservatory. It’s humid too, tropical in fact.
Ask Rufus: Spring in the Prairie
Prairies form the heart of the Golden Triangle Region. Three miles across the Tombigbee River from Columbus was Pitchlynn’s Prairie, which centered around John Pitchlynn’s 1820s residence.
Ask Rufus: Spring Time 1849
The cold snap of the last few days has brought to mind an account of spring time 164 years ago. The plantation journal for a Billups farm in Lowndes County during the spring of 1849 has survived and paints an interesting picture.
Mississippi Voices: Spring reveries
The first day of spring. My favorite month, April, is just around the corner. Now we just need one big gullywasher to get rid of the pine pollen.
Normally, spring gives me a strong sense of rebirth and renewal, but this spring I seem surrounded by moments crystallizing the passage of time.
Slimantics: Dad and the contradiction of spring …
Wednesday is the first day of spring, that time of year when most of us do with joy what we will be complaining about having to do come summer.
Southern Gardening: Spring brings garden shows across the state
Cabin fever seems to hit me earlier each year, and it doesn’t help that we haven’t had much of a winter the past couple of years.
I already have tomato transplants ready to put in the ground even though it’s still two months from the traditional last frost date here on the coast. I saw blooming annuals for sale this weekend at a local garden center. I think I’m feeling a little warm.
Gasoline prices get start on spring surge
NEW YORK — Gasoline prices are getting an early start on their annual spring march higher. The average U.S. retail price rose 13 cents over
Our view: The first day of spring
On the first day of spring we watched a man in blue suspenders standing in a bed of pink azaleas roll brown paint on The Old Homestead, the house Rufus and Karen Ward are restoring next to the Episcopal Church.
Our View: The bumpy road to spring
Seems Mother Nature is her most whimsical in the spring. And, not always in a good way. Less than a year ago in April, tornadoes ripped through Smithville and Tuscaloosa, Ala., leaving in their wake death and a swath of destruction still visible.
Birney Imes: Waiting for spring
Friday, at the end of an afternoon of weeding and rearranging flower beds, Linda Spearling went inside her house and warmed her hands over a wood stove.
Rufus Ward: Common flowers native to the Golden Triangle
Spring has arrived with its vivid display of color and that has brought a question. Which of our common flowers are native to this area? That is not a question I can address from the view of a botanist, but I can address it as a historian. There are a number of early accounts that describe the flora of the Golden Triangle.