We are about half way through our winter rainy season here in Coastal California.
Rain or shine it's all the same to the cows, but they are more picturesque when the low winter sunlight finds a hole in the clouds.
This time of year there are a few plants that remind us that spring will come back in a couple months. The first willows, growing near the creeks, start to bud.
The California Buckeye balls which dropped from the bare branches a couple months ago send out their shoots towards the wet ground, hoping to be the first roots of a new tree.
The indomitable Narcissus show their fresh faces to the pelting rain and the winds while all the other spring bulbs are still sleeping safe underground.
And some foolish bicyclist on an old bike dares to think he can make it through an entire cloudy ride without getting too soggy.
Brent