Because You Have Been Deprived

Here are some pictures I took in the French Laundry's garden in Yountville a couple of months ago. It was crazy how much stuff they still had growing that late. Everything is all covered up in white blankets now, hiding from the frost we had two weeks ago.

The spring flowers are already starting here on the ranch, halfway through January. Some of those crazy, precocious narcissi were going mid-December, but now the bright mustard is emerging and the camellias and magnolias are blooming, too. I barely got a taste of winter, but I know this January warm spell is just a teaser. Hopefully we'll get a few more good soakings before spring really starts.