Why I hate March

It's bad enough that March is the windiest month of the year, but on top of that, almost every single Feb-Mar everything leafs out, only to be zapped by a freeze in March. Yesterday, I watered at the oasis. Green and lovely, stuff blooming everywhere. The Huisache trees were becoming loaded with leaves and blooms. It was over 90.°

Huisache is very frost tender, so I can only imagine how they look today after last night's freeze. Here in town, I tried to protect the apricot tree that was loaded with fruit and lush leaves. At 5 AM, as the temperature reached freezing, I turned on a sprinkler below it. Here it is at daylight. All I can do now is hope some of the fruit survives.

A visitor took this Lucifer Hummingbird photo at the oasis yesterday. I think it has a damaged bill.

Photo by Sharon McCanahan