Sunny Day

 That title has me singing:

Sunny day, Sweepin' the clouds away.

Thank you Sesame Street.

I was thinking that the 49ers might be wishing they were playing the Seahawks in Seattle, but then I checked the weather in San Francisco and it looks like they mostly lucked out. Most of the latest atmospheric river has gone south of them again.

We have had moderate rain the last two days. Nothing serious. And it's warm-ish, temps in the low to mid 50's.

Today for my exercise I spent 40 minutes walking around the yard, finding signs of spring, and checking up on Tom, who is cutting the old leaves off of the budding hellebores. 

Found him, coffee cup in hand. :-)

Have coffee, will work. 

I look at the clean up that needs to be done, and it makes me unhappy that I can't do it. Maybe next year. 

The winter Jasmine are finally starting to bloom, buds ready to burst. 

The Sarcococca bush under the window is in bloom, wafting its vanilla scent into the sun warmed air. I pick sprigs of it to add to the green bouquet to bring the scent inside. 

Primroses are budding up to renew the blooms that were embattled by the hard frost and snow we had before Christmas. 

I found euonymus seed pods almost ready to break open and show off their wonderful pink and orange colors. Such beauty in the little things.

Like these tiny mushrooms in the mossy lawn. 

It will be a while before we shed winter, but there are signs of promise waiting to be found.