The First Frost.......well almost

So the weather folks were talking about frost all weekend and into the week, there was this big cold front moving in that they swore if it had been December we would have had snow here for sure. Well it did snow in the mountains and I'll say it did seem early for snow up there and even in Bend. I brought in plants to the greenhouse, tucked away the tropicals from the patio, put out some blankets on a few things, and scrambled to get the rest of the tomatoes into the pantry. 

On Tuesday we had a little bit of ice on the windshield and and the roof, but it really hadn't settled onto the lawn even and you certainly couldn't call it a hard frost at all. But the harbingers of an early winter and possibly a harder one then we have seen in a good while certainly to seem to be blowing in with that crisp north wind that has prevailed the better part of 4 days now. 

Crocus cartwrightianus 'Marcel'

The autumn crocus bloom continues unabated, although the lack of sunshine the last few days have had most of them closed up.

47 and Raining now, more rain in the forecast the next few days,

Mark