Springtime in Sonora

After one of the mildest Marchs on record, the flower pots outside my workroom door are in full bloom. The freesias are going wild. The anenomes have come an gone. The petunias are riotous. The heliotrope and johnny jump ups, like the bulbs, come back year after year.

Good old Mr. Lincoln; that rose bush must be nearly forty years old as the house was built in 1968. Take a look at the first rose of the spring. The more than a dozen other rosebushes are coming on fast. They love the cool weather and the first flush of blooms is always spectacular.

Come June it will be 106ºF and anything not shaded by the big Arizona ash tree will sulk; we lose a lot of rose bushes on that end of the line. But for now we glory in the sonoran spring.