Crocus

After an early start to what appeared to be a winter with snow, it has instead been unseasonably warm and dry. We were some 15 inches behind in rainfall at the end of 2005. We finally got a decent rain in late January but it still hasn't been enough to lift the burn ban. Beaver Lake was about 15 feet below normal when I went out to see what interesting things had turned up where the water receded. Monte Ne's amphitheatre was close to half out of the water that day. It's been underwater since the lake was build in the 1960s, save one time in the late 70s when the water levels were very low. I've pretty much given up on the idea that we could get snow. It's not like it's really as much fun as it was growing up now anyway. If the roads are even moderately passable I still have to be at work. So I don't exactly get to play it in. But anyway, because it has been so warm, I've spent time working on the flowerbed out front and noticed that we have Crocus and Tulips up on the edge of the house where it's warm that shouldn't be up for weeks. Yet the last couple of nights the temps have gone back down and now the blooming Crocus look sad and frost bitten.