Someone Turned the Switch

In just a few days we have gone from frozen water dishes for the birds to 83ºF weather.

Sonora is like this. We never have a gradual transition from winter to spring to summer. One day you awake and everything has changed.

The johnny jump ups to the left are volunteers that seeded down. The parent plants have been good to me and true to their designation of perennials and reappeared this spring.

There has been a lot of trimming away of freeze killed leaves and so forth. So we shall see what remains of the plants in the pots.

I've been unwilling to venture into the tropical garden courtyard in front of the master bedroom. The fishtail palm is looking poorly and the last time I looked at the banana tree it seemed dead. I won't know if the roots have survived for another month.