California Winter

Here we are at the beginning of our week of bitter cold weather when the ground is covered with snow and the nighttime temps are minus this and minus that and it makes me think of what we used to call winter in California. Oh, there would be the rain which would cause mud slides wherever last year's fires had been, but, I think fondly of it now, at least for this week. After the hard week of winter, things will start to warm up and the ups and downs will keep leading in an upward direction until it's springtime again.