Springtime is My Favorite Time

I love spring, it is that couple of months during the year that everything is green. Usually things are dry and brown around here in the semi-desert. The only green things usually are the alfalfa fields & vineyards. Having grown up with a winemaker as an uncle, I grew to appreciate the grapes, but now since the govenment paid ranchers not to raise cattle, there are way too many vineyards for our water supplies to accomodate.



Anyway, even the weeds are beautiful this time of year.





New surprises pop up everywhere.







& dead things revive.





Bugs are even interesting.