With sincere appologies to those of you suffering under cold, snowy, and icy conditions, I can't help but offer this contrast...


This was taken this morning by my office. The flowers are probably weeds, but certainly colorful enough.

Any chance next month's photo contest theme could be flowers so I can have a fighting chance and before everything goes brown here?

 

yup. Wild mustard. Basically a weed, but a nice pretty yellow

 

Okay - so they are pretty yellow weeds - it's still nice to see some sign of Springtime - great photo!!!

Donna

 

uhhh the grass. uhh flowers. uhhh the sun. how i miss you all. :(

 

Hmm, wild mustard, eh? I'll have to show this photo to the wife then because I think this is the same plant found in China that the local villagers used to make cooking oil from. Small world.

 

Yes! I often see Chinese people out there in the fields collecting it in the
San Jose area. Interesting stuff.

 

About 60 miles north of San Jose where the yellow mustard is flowering, I've seen crocus peeking through the earth and have also seen some hill sides covered in paper white lillies already.