Spring! ...in February??

Sure is a wonderment to this ol' dry-lander, how much "thangs is diffrunt hyar in Ory-gun!"

The top, left pic is of a red, flowering Quince bush.  Silly thing is starting to put on a bunch of red blooms and green buds, already.  (On Feb 1st)   On the right, above, is a mixed up shrub of some unknown variety, that has looked like this all Winter!!  Luv-it!!! 

Yes, we do get a bunch of rain!  Almost every day, this time of year.  The temperatures are very moderate.  Overnite is around 45-50.  Daytime only goes up less than 10 degrees.  One of the few bad things is moss...everywhere!  It's just starting to show on the siding of our house.  It started on our back step, facing East, in the pic.






The light green shrub with pink flowers has been at it all winter.  I have no idea what it's callled.... (Clue me in, you horticulturists out there, ok?)




The Rhododendrons, for which Florence is famous, bloom from about March through mid-April, as I recall from last Spring...which is about when we arrived here.  After blooming, they set on the second set of buds which you see atop the stems in this pic.  We'll just wait for them to burst out in bloom then post the pic's, here.  I really thought these would lose all their leaves in the Winter-time.  ...fooled me...



Yup; we love Oregon!  Don't miss the snow, a'tall.  Could use jist a tich more days of good, ol' sunshine, though...  All in all, we'll take it!!!