Here in the Sierra foothills of California, we've had two weeks of the most extraordinary weather. We had two or three weeks of rain over Christmas, with record snowfall at higher elevations. Then we had two weeks of warm, sunny weather. Everything started turning green, and I looked our from our ridge over a magical sea of fog that covered the Sacramento River Valley. If was depressing to go into the fog on my weekly trip to Sacramento, but it was wonderful to look over the top of it.
Then more rain clouds came in last night, and we're back into grey, rainy winter. Maybe the rain will turn to snow this time.
-Joe Offer, Colfax, California-