Albert's Greenhouse

It decided to be spring again for just a couple of days this past weekend. The weather forecaster is predicting rain soon, but over the weekend we took full advantage and went up to the wine country ( Napa, to be more specific ) for the annual Mustard Festival.

Mustard, allegedly introduced by Spanish missionaries to mark likely places for settlement, grows wild and almost weedlike all over vast regions of Northern California. Its flowers shade the hillsides yellow in the spring, and otherwise it's not good for too much, being somewhat invasive. I don't believe that many Californians harvest the seeds to actually make mustard from these wild plants.




Also plenty of other wildflowers growing in Napa - wild geraniums, wild radish, lupins and many more all grow alongside the roads. This time of the year is a prime wildflower time before the dry, hot days of summer.





The skies are cloudy this morning, and it looks like rain again, but for a brief weekend, we actually saw spring.