It's snowing here today. Gasp!

First of all, this is Northern California. We rarely even get a hard freeze at night, and now there is snow falling during the day. All the hillsides around us here in the Valley of Heart's Delight (the name of this region before it became known as Silicon Valley) are covered in snow, and quite picturesque.

But still....SNOW! Because second of all, it's March, and it's supposed to be warming up by now. I think the East Coast is getting temps in the 80's today. Crazy.

Last year it didn't start getting warm until July. Is this what global warming is going to be like in California? Cold and rainy? Are we slowly morphing into Oregon?

All my tender plants are dying. I have a lovely Brugmansia tree that was doing beautifully, growing by leaps and bounds, covered in huge hanging yellow trumpet flowers. Now it's a brown stick, covered in dead brown leaves. So sad.

We have vines with scarlet trumpet flowers growing up the side supports of our bocce ball court arbor. I had babied them and fertilized them and they were finally spreading over the top of the arbor to perfectly shade the court in summertime, and protect it from rain in the wintertime. Now they are brown and withered. All the new growth is dead, and a lot of the old growth is dead too. Ugh.

Dan just called me from his car. Hwy 280 is covered in ice and snow, as are the hillsides on either side of the freeway. I thought that his cell phone was breaking up, but the staticky noise was actually the sound of giant hail pounding his car. Good grief. What next?