A picture - never seen before and never the same again

A couple of weeks ago, during Nature Notes, Rudy Mancke read from Beauty by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and reminded me of the condition monitoring reports you all are submitting. 

The lines he read were, "The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please myself with the graces of the wintry scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer. To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again."

The coming weeks will see a great amount of change as we shift from Winter to Spring. With the warmer temperatures this past week, I've noticed that the tulip trees on campus here at USC in Columbia, SC are starting to bloom and daffodils are popping up everywhere around town. With the seasonal shift to Spring, I am sure that we will receive many wonderful condition monitoring reports from you about all of the changes you see.  We will look forward to highlighting the observations you share. Thank you for your efforts!