On Feb 3, 7:08*pm, "Larry L" wrote:
Hundreds and hundreds of bees arrived today, apparently out of thin air, to
buzz about a tree in our yard that is budding out. * .... minor miracle of
Nature,..... if any such miracle qualifies as minor

I wish the Groundhog that saw it's shadow yesterday was more likely to be
right, California needs more Winter, lots more Winter, not a very early
Spring.


Well, you(?) need more snow. January is the big month for
accumulation.

My one buddy sent me the snow pack monitoring sites, the one we're
following is at 60% normal. For *our* selfish needs (the window
between snow melt and when levels are too low), it's not going to
matter too much, but it seems like only the right thing to do to learn
about what's happening in the area where you're going to be waltzing
matilda come summer.

These are the official snow collector/counter folks:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/snow/current/snow/