It's Spring for Sure!

When I went away to LA, the weather got colder here (and warmer in LA, incidentally--coincidence? You be the judge =)), so my worries that the long-awaited Spring bloom would start here without me were ill-founded. Nothing changed here while I was away. I got a chance to see the buds open up around me. Some of the trees have yet to be roused from their slumber, but many plants and trees are awake and making for very pretty pictures.