Saturday, March 10, 2007
SUMMER
We are heading to summer with temperatures in the 90s this next week. We had spring; the last couple of weeks.
It has been a long tough winter.
You know we had ice.
The ice and I became intimately connected.
We had severe frost for two nights. We lost the banana trees and all the hibiscus and bougainvillea leaves (not the plants).
He had wind. But that was more the spring part.
It has been tough all around for us here in the desert.
But the orchid tree is in its fourth week of splendid bloom; the new leaves are sprouting on all but the most severely 'burned' tropical plants and even the banana tree 'pups' are beginning to grow the plantation back.
Of course there are roses! The new plants are coming in after their pruning and they are abundant.
The cold, dreary, ice ridden days are over.
The pool water is even up to the high 70s without nighttime cover.
Life is good.
