It's finally springtime where you live, right? Time to dust off the road bike and lose that winter coat of fur and blubber!

I look no further than my backyard for signs of spring.







Too soon?

you're in califeckingfornia, you didn't even have winter.

My backyard looks pretty much the same, just with a ton of green grass from all the rain.

In my backyard, there is still a ton of white stuff.

I would need snowshoes just to get to the compost heap

Of course we have winter! For instance, in this pic the hills are brown and the mountain tops have snow.




And in this shot you can tell by how soon the sun sets.




Look, there's snow!




And finally, a shot looking out my back window, on Christmas Eve when it's supposed to snow.

Two weeks after the most recent snow, the drifts are still 2 feet deep in my back yard. Still, there is some bare ground and we may see upper 40s this weekend. Last night, under the full moon, in the yard for last call with the dogs, I heard a spring peeper in my nieighbor's pond. It was the most feeble, half-hearted attempt at a mating call out in the 34 degree air. Poor little guy. Gotta give him credit for ambition. Still, that's one of the significant harbingers of warmer weather to come. Hope burns eternal in the hearts of roadies.

don't make walter angry. you wouldn't like walter when he's angry.

Walter looks happier than a pig in slop. As a matter of fact, he kind of looks like a pig in slop. I mean this in the best way. I'm a dogophile. Four of my six big mutts are lying about on the floor as I type this. Uh oh, where are the other two? Better go see what's up with that.

a friend of mine has an English bulldog. They have got to be one of the goofiest and coolest breeds of dogs. Hers is always happy/excited. I almost think his brain couldn't process being mean about anything.

oh no, not Walter again! haha
i think he is the new mascot for BF in the winter

rain just took all the snow away, and had some great weather today but looks like rain/snow for the next two days

blah to spring. all that means is that the time will change and 75% of my morning ride will now be in darkness instead of just 25%

Is dirty brown snow 2ft. high along the sides of the road a sign of spring?

It's only march 1st. You've got another few weeks of winter left I'm afraid.

Unless and until someone comes up with a sillier dog in snow picture, Walter's got the job.

dude, not cool. this sort of taunting demands a picture of smog

sadly, I still have snow left off from a month ago. I cant wait for true spring.

Hey! I'll counter with this:



The snow scenes in the mountains above Los Angeles and environs are awesome this year. Mt. Baldy, San Jacinto, San Gorgonio are mantled with snow, on summits reaching above 10,000 feet.

Snow forecasted for tomorrow night. 69F by next Monday

Almost hit 50 today!! My fav climb looked like this though:

Oh that looks fun, i've been looking at that sight for months, I'm sick of it

45 and sunny in RI tomorrow.. kick myself over 200mi for the year and catch up to last year . no good pictures tho.. cuz RI sucks like that

It never got covered with dust . . . just grime, which remained there for weeks.

O.M.G. All that cold wet white stuff!