April is less than an hour away and the forecast for April 1st predicts a high of 56 degrees and a low of 39. Are you kidding me? When will spring arrive?

April is Global Astronomy Month, so the thumbnail photo for this month is 'Shooting Star,' a vibrant Meilland miniature rose.

The first day of April is April Fools' Day, and although there's not much sun to be seen yet in this part of "sunny" California, there must be some sun somewhere else.

Zuzu, was that forecast an April Fool joke?
No sun? California has certainly had more than its share of odd weather this year!

1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California

It's a very weird weather day here in lower New York: 72 degrees, strong winds, and severe thunderstorms with possible hail and tornados. We rarely get tornados.

Yeah, we've ruined our weather.

Same cold spring weather here in the Sacramento Valley as Zuzu's coastal weather. I think we have had more frost and cold temps than any other time I can remember. But hope is on the way...70's forecast fot the end of next week in time for Easter!

Finally got my Black Baccara and Moonlight Romatica from Witherspoon planted today. The soil out there is good and rich black dirt so I just dug holes and plopped them in. Mulch all around with straw to help kill the grass there. Still have to get my roses here dug up and moved over there but waiting on the forsythias to bloom then I will prune them back and take them over. It wasn't a good day for working outside with the wind always worse out there than here but I got them done.

We have rain and snow forecasted for the next few days and several nights of sub-freezing temps.

The good news is that night temps will be above freezing for the first time starting this coming Thursday ....

The forsythia in town is just starting to bloom ... about a month later than usual.

This has truly been an odd weather cycle in my part of California, too.

Smiles,
Lyn

Zuzu has some computer problems so not sure when she will be back on, her IT person is coming tomorrow.

Thanks Sue.

It is Palm Sunday. Can anyone display an appropriate representative rose?

'Blessed Event'

Mike to the rescue!

'Hosanna'

Planted 21 roses this week, 4 more to go! Hope for the best results.

I need to get mine cut back and dug up soon but waiting on a place I use to get their bulk mulch in. Haven't had a chance to check with them yet. I can't transplant the roses without mulch since alot of my beds have been neglected for a few years at the other house. Much easier and faster to smother than to pull weeds.

Hope zuzu will fix her computer soon!

1920 Novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (23) weds novelist Zelda Sayre (19) at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York
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Very good! And what a beautiful bloom!