Soggy, soggy February

Several inches of rain have fallen in the past few days. Frosty earlier in the month, but now it's just cold and windy. And rainy.






Bloom day is tiny again this month, in both size and quantity. An interesting surprise is the out-of-season hebe blooms (they normally don't bloom till summer). There are several shrubs and flowers which tease us with fattening buds, like this red twig dogwood.


Got these two veggie beds straightened out a couple weeks ago when the weather was nicer -- weeded, amended, mulched. Planning on starting seeds in a couple weeks. I neglected to put down the anti-cat devices (old blackberry canes) so now there's a couple of great, big cat poops in the freshly-amended beds. Mmm-mm, good.