Playing a little catchup

My mom posted recently on a particular squirrel visitor we have.

I promised in the comments that I would post the squirrel "caught on camera"... just not quite caught climbing the wall. I've seen him do it, but this last time, even though the camera was right there and ready, I was laughing too hard to react quick enough and snap.
I see him as saying, yeah, I know this is for the birds, ya got a problem with that?

Nearly a month ago, I posted that I thought spring was here. I was a bit premature, as a week later we had bitter cold again and then 2 weeks of rain. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. Bitter cold in California speak is lows in the 30s. It's all relative though :) And for 2 weeks of rain, technically that just meant over the last two weeks it has rained nearly every day. For a place that gets 300 sunny days a year, that's a lot of rain.

But now I think it's safe to say... Spring is here.




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Here's an updated pic of the front yard beginning to bloom and fill out. I can't wait for the wisteria (at top left) to start blooming. The buds are swelling as I type :) By early summer this whole yard will be green and lush. The lantana will be spreading, the wisteria will cover it's fence, and the ornamental grasses will be full height again. We just chopped them back a week or so ago.

Ignore the bare drip lines showing... someone still hasn't gotten around to the job he started last summer of replacing the rock mulch with woodchips or tanbark. Hope it's done before summer hits or these plants are gonna roast.