Goodbye to Spring

To give you an idea of how seriously screwed up the weather is here on the North Coast, we've essentially had no winter. We didn't want to talk much about it, since nearly everybody else was suffering with cold, snow, ice, rain, wind and storms. We had sunshine and warm temperatures. This is supposed to be our winter, our rainy season, but we haven't had any serious rain since the end of December. Flowers like this rose responded to the early spring. But now, even as I write this, the winds are building, and the forecast is for rain and cold for the rest of the week, for the next 10 days, for as far as the forecasts go. So in mid-February, winter begins. It's likely to play havoc with more than the roses.