The lettuce, spinach, radishes and bunching onions are all sown and beginning to germinate. Hope to get kale planted this weekend.

Have daffodils in bloom as well as crested and reticulated iris. The wood hyacinths are about to bloom. Larkspur, ammi and poppy seedlings are all over the place--I have to get to thinning them.

The lawns around town are looking quite charming with clouds of color from spring wildflowers--henbit, white and purple violets, common speedwell, mosses blooming, and of course the dandelions. And all the fall planted pansies in pots and beds around porches are beginning to put on their show.

The weather may be cold--but spring has come to the southland.

Janie