Spring is here

Well, Spring has finally arrived in the Bay area after a wet winter (apparently they all are rather wet around here). It was actually good to get some time with rain with the last couple of years in Australia being so dry. I'm not sure I'm quite ready for 8 months of virtually no rainfall, but I believe this is what we are to expect.

We are definitely looking forward to warmer weather after 2 successive winters (we moved to USA in the middle of the Australian Spring).

The photographs shown here were taken at the end of April as we toured the hills to the west of Silicon Valley toward the Pacific. It was a cool, misty-foggy day and felt like it had been raining nonstop for months... Which I guess in the hills to some extent is true. Down in Silicon Valley itself at the same time it was a hot day with blazing sunshine... An amazing contrast for just a few km away.