On Candlemas, I took my Christmas tree down all by myself and dragged it to the driveway. I started to cut it up with a hand saw, but that was slow going, and I decided to ask my neighbor to have at it with his power tools, so I can put it in my yard waste bin.

As I hauled the tree along the front walk, I noticed that the first anemone is blooming, and in the back garden a bee was drinking from the manzanita flowers.