An icky, windy, rainy day like this warrants a few pretty pictures, like this Carpenteria californica who can hardly contain itself.
Or this show-stopping Iris fernaldii, a gift from my favorite farmers, Curbstone Valley.
What about this guppy-faced Penstemon palmeri about to release its Springtime fragrance?
Oh, that's where the sun went! It got swallowed up by this luminescent poppy. Well, I hope the poppy decides to share- this gloomy weather is not hastening the planting of those columbines I keep meaning to put in! As I glance longingly out the window again and return with a shiver, I've declared this to be hot chocolate hour. Join me for a mug?
