Rain: 0.55 inches (January 22-24, 2013)

Showers in the past couple of days have added 0.55 inches to our total for the 2012-2013 rain year. We now stand at 22.20 inches. The historical average for this day in Santa Rosa is 19.86 inches, which puts us more than two inches ahead of normal at the moment. Average annual rainfall in Santa Rosa is about 36.3 inches.

Plants I'm Growing: Pink Flowering Plum--Prunus Mume (January 24, 2013)

I belatedly note that the pink flowering plum at the front of the house started blooming on January 20. This little tree has been suffering from an infestation of scale, so it produced very few buds, but the buds that are there have mostly opened. The white plum (same species, Prunus mume) is now pretty much in full bloom.