Try that late winter pickup when you are so tired of cold and snow that you feel you just can't take another day of it.

Subgenus Alnus: Trees with stalked shoot buds, male and female catkins produced in autumn ( fall ) but stay closed over winter, pollinating in late winter or early spring, about 15 – 25 species, including:

This group of constellations is prominent in the southern sky in late winter and spring.

The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.

The south of the country is most exposed to cold winds during the winter period ( early May to late August ) when average temperatures are around.

These birds are generally solitary or found in pairs early in the year, but family groups are common in the late summer and winter roosts may have two dozen or more birds in a single covey.

In the late 1990s, anthropologist Stanley Ambrose proposed that a volcanic winter induced by this eruption reduced the human population to about 2, 000-20, 000 individuals, resulting in a population bottleneck ( see Toba catastrophe theory ).

Diocletian met Maximian in Milan in the winter of 290 – 91, either in late December 290 or January 291.

The snow house we think of was a temporary shelter during hunting seasons in the late winter and spring.

The Great Auk migrated north and south away from the breeding colonies after the chicks fledged and tended to go southward during late fall and winter.

Fearing the cold of the English winter, Gardner decided to sail to Cyprus in late 1936, remaining there into the following year.

Although there still were battles such as Maloyaroslavets the Napoleonic army left Russia in late 1812 annihilated, most of all by the Russian winter, exhaustion, and scorched earth warfare.

The family will eventually split up in late fall or early winter.

Maximum precipitation, like the rest of East Asia, occurs in the summer months except on the Sea of Japan coast where strong northerly winds produce a maximum in late autumn and early winter.

* Spring lambs, born in late winter or early spring, are usually sold before July 1.

As this was too late in the year to make the trip to Upper Canada because of severe weather, the Simcoes spent the winter in Quebec City.

More ubiquitous in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, kerosene space heaters were often built into kitchen ranges, and kept many farm and fishing families warm and dry through the winter.

Precipitation on the coasts and on the interior plains ranges from a year and falls during mid-and late winter.

There is ample precipitation throughout the year, although it is heaviest in the late autumn and early winter and mid spring.

Porsche debuted the 928 GT in the late winter 1988 / 89 after dropping the slowly selling CS and SE.

It goes into the soil late in the season, where it pupates in order to spend the winter.

Annual precipitation in Saint John totals about annually and is well distributed throughout the year, although the late autumn and early winter is typically the wettest time of year.

Pine, spruce and fir do not lose their leaves seasonally and are able to photosynthesize with their older leaves in late winter and spring when light is good but temperatures are still too low for new growth to commence.

Although precipitation is not a limiting factor, the ground freezes during the winter months and plant roots are unable to absorb water, so desiccation can be a severe problem in late winter for evergreens.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.

In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.

It seems clear, from the counter-balanced shape of the series of arrows in Figure 5 that there was about an equal number of early and late Onsets and Completions for the 34 girls.

Accordingly, if epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion occurs in this phalanx near menarche, early and late menarches might have been forecast rather precisely at the time of Onset of ossification for the 18 girls with `` same schedule ''.

In spite of the defects in this system, the figures on total population during the late 1930's and again in the early 1950's seem to have represented actual conditions in most districts with approximate fidelity.

Here again it seems that useful approximations of the size and geographical distribution of the population were obtained in this way in the late pre-war and early post-war periods.

Voter registration began in late November 1959 and continued until early January, 1960.

Synthetic Cubism began with Picasso alone, late in 1913 or early in 1914 ; ;

For critics, Hardy has had no poetic periods -- one does not speak of early Hardy or late Hardy, or of the London or Max Gate period, but simply of Hardy, as of a poetic monolith.

If the wedding party lasted late, and the travel schedule means there are only a few hours before resuming the trip or making an early start, the husband may forestall tensions and uncertainties by confiding to his bride that lying in each other's arms will be bliss enough for these few hours.

This carried over into the more urbanized late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the man ruled the roost in the best bull-roaring Life With Father manner.

The farmer must get up early, and, at times, work late at night.

There were mornings when Stanley came in late, afternoons when he left early, days when he didn't come in at all.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

Except for a few months in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959.

And there is the bright note: The gains were achieved in the face of temporary traffic lags late in 1960 and early in 1961 as a result of business recession.

Farther south, there are attractive patches all the way to the Ozarks, with some seasonal peaks as late as early November.

After a hiatus of several centuries, formal commentary by Eustratius and Michael of Ephesus reappears in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, apparently sponsored by Anna Comnena

The evolution of the Greek sculpture can be observed in his depictions from the almost static formal Kouros type in early archaic period, to the representation of motion in a relative harmonious whole in late archaic period.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

Although they are often considered to be weeds in gardens, this viewpoint is not always necessary, as most of them die when the soil temperature warms up again in early to late spring when other plants are still dormant and have not yet leafed out.

He subsequently wrote three novels merging these overarching themes, The World of Null-A and The Pawns of Null-A in the late 1940s, and Null-A Three in the early 1980s.