It is almost spring with the equinox coming up next Tuesday. You can definitely tell that spring time is almost here in California as the trees blossom and start to leaf out.

I took this picture last Saturday, and already my Mr. Lincoln rose bush has a lot more growth on it. I still need to do just a bit of trimming on my rose bushes to get rid of a few crossing canes and also cut out a bit more dead wood.

I did remove some dead wood from this rose bush after I took this picture on Saturday. I am hoping that I at least have some time this coming weekend to do a bit more cleanup. It is supposed to rain all week though, so I am hoping it is not too wet.

Here you can see an example of all the new growth which helps highlight where the dead wood is on the bushes.

Tonight I took a few more pictures, but they are still in my camera. There are even small buds on the bushes so I should have nice rose blooms in a few weeks.

One nice thing about the rainy weather this week is that I have been seeing some nice rainbows. I walked into my kitchen on Tuesday morning and saw this rainbow out the window. I had to grab my camera and go outside and take some pictures.

I really like seeing double rainbows.

I have also been seeing some rainbows while driving back and forth to work. However, it is not easy to get good rainbow pictures out of the window of the car 🙂

Thinking of rainbows, I am sure we will see many of them on Saturday with the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.

I am also thinking of this rainbow picture that I took several years ago. Do you know why this is a Pink Rainbow? Click on the link for an explanation.

Have you ever seen a pink rainbow?

Steven