This last week was full of El Nino power and the canyon got a lot of water. While the River levels didn't go as high as first predicted, we definitely saw some changes. Hobson creek filled quickly once the feeder streams got underway, and I took a walk to see where one of them started and found a spring coming right out of the hillside! I know of another one too. If we get a really dry summer again, I wonder what those springs will be like. I'll keep my eyes on it.

My "I wonder" questions are for now: did all that rain knock away many of the blossoms (and therefore fruit) we were seeing in our plum and other rogue fruit trees? What will happen to our wildflowers? Any chance for a good flush of spring fungi? And most of all -- with all that water -- what will happen with our steelhead??

It looks like the hazelnuts are going to have a bumper crop this year and the butterflies are already out. Spring has definitely arrived, my favorite time of year.