April 2

It snowed here March 31 -- a wet, heavy snow that stuck to the trees, in some cases encrusting entire trees. Other trees had barely any snow, and sometimes the snow stopped halfway up the tree. It must have had something to do with how the wind was blowing. Anyway, April 1 was lovely, all that snow under a cloudless, pale blue sky. By evening the trees were bare again. Today the roads and sidewalks are clear, and only patches of snow remain on lawns and the sides of the freeways. It was pretty while it lasted.