When things happen

An interesting feature of blip, once you've passed your personal 365 (or at least the one year anniversary of your first blip if you haven't managed the whole daily blip thing yet), is that you can look back a year to see what was happening then. Or what wasn't happening at quite the same time. Seeing the wisteria flowers on the house next door I thought about blipping them, but then remembered I'd blipped them before and thought I would probably have to find something else to photograph. I had a quick check, and yes I had blipped them before, but it was actually more than two years ago, on the anniversary of my first actual blip in Paris. And interestingly (at least to me) it was more than a month earlier in the year. So I thought it would be interesting to blip it after all, with some musings on the seasons of nature. I thought the seasons were getting earlier but here at least is some evidence that this year's wisteria is flowering a whole month later than two years ago. And although the Parisian wisteria I reminisced about from the year before had also been in flower above the slopes of Montmartre in the first week of May, Paris is almost 500 miles south. If you accept the rough approximation that spring moves north at about 16 or 17 miles a day - that's about a month's difference. Which means that this year Edinburgh is more in tune with Paris in 2010 than with Edinburgh in 2011, which was a month ahead of both.
As I said - very interesting!
Which is the attraction of the '"same" picture every day' approach I guess. I say "same" in quotes because even a picture from exactly the same point at the same time every day is not the same. Another theme I've considered before.