I think you are taking this going green thing a bit too far... For it's sake (and your vision's), I hope it doesn't revisit your windshiled after puberty.
I can safely say were are in the throws of early spring. Some of our trees have leaves, the rest are budding out. Now if it would warm up a bit. I'm looking forward to 60° weather. I wore sandals outside the other day - once. I still haven't tried shorts, but I have gone without a jacket on a couple of occasions. Bring on the warm weather! Tom
Strawberry (Yum!) season is well underway, and blueberries should be in season shortly. Been shorts and sandals weather here for quite a while. This is a great time of year, the evenings are still cool, the bugs are not a problem (yet), and humidity is low. I am a former Michigander, now a damn-yankee in North Carolina. A real Michigan winter would probably kill me since I haven't gone through one in 25+ years. My Prius is on order. Only another week!!!
My car is getting sprinkled with the little black "specks" these guys produce. I don't see that on yours. Just lots of pine pollen. He is cute though.
I'm thinking that it doesn't get to 98°F all that often in Portland. We see temps above 100°F all the time in the summer here. Prius Air Conditioning works really well...
You can get the " ° " character from the character map set Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map Copy and paste it to your post........... and then use the undeline facility in the reply header, so you get 98°F Ok?