Rainy days!

 (I forgot I was posting this three days ago ooops.)

That view is from Saturday when the rain was moving in.

 It has been definitely chilly and rainy the last three days. Four days ago it was breezy and clear, got windier the next day with encroaching clouds and cold. Then, as predicted, Sunday wind and rain with clouds all day. Same for today with rain early in the morning, temps in the low 50's to 40's and sort of cleared off middle of the day and now it's dark and threatening rain again.

Needless to say, I didn't get out to the garden until a few hours ago. Haven't even taken Rocky out yesterday or today due to wet and cold. There's no wind at all right now, dead calm and maybe rain in the next couple of hours.

I remembered to take my bags of scraps down at least and just dumped them on the pile. 

Had to do color correction on the left hand picture, another pink one. Need to use up the last of the eggs soon for more egg shells, I'm using more onion and bell pepper lately and the bulk of today was potato peels. The ground was still very wet so walked carefully, sandy soil not slick mud thankfully. No disturbances visible until I looked at the north bed.The stringy thing is a dead weed and has nothing to do with the pile of yellow yuck.

Hard to say which end that pile came out of from a cat but scooped it up and threw it toward the wall. Don't ask why I didn't throw it in the jade bush but since it came from a cat, I wasn't going to throw it on the compos pile.

So it is still very cold, dropping into the mid 30's at night so some places are getting frost, the Sierras have gotten some snow as well as the local mountains. It's winter! Funny how technically 'fall' starts in November but december is three months later? It's winter here now folks! Can't change the way the earth turns and the weather is going to do what it does.

Short plant trivia: Ever notice how some trees and plants (at least in the west) are not dropping leaves and even some are blooming? It depends on where their origins are. I could make a blanket statement and say that they're usually from the Southern Hemisphere like South Africa or Australia but how does that explain Camellias? Well it still does sort of. They come from a temperate zone and one group blooms in the fall and the other in the spring. Which in some areas means it's warm weather and not cold when they're blooming. Bird of Paradise are from Mexico, Jacarandas that are still in leaf in winter and bloom around March when they have no leaves...they're originally from Central and South America. 

This does not apply to 'evergreens' as in pines, fir, redwood (most), 'California' pepper, juniper...you get the idea. These trees are why it's sort of green in winter for us but the grasses and weeds are only just coming back from finishing in the summer.

Ah how the seasons change and are marked by flowers in the garden.