Weather
Winter temps get down to 8 or 9 degrees F, but with hardly any insulating snow. Summer temps climb to nearly a hundred degrees higher, with humidity in the drying single digits. Autumn and Spring are wonderfully warm during the days with a crips edge at night.

But tempuratures do not tell half of the story. At the change of seasons, gusty winds blow sand from your neighbors' and from miles away, propelling them like little daggers to shred tree leaves and sting the skin. The native wildlife spend these wind storms hiding in burrows or hunkered down in dense shrubbery. The native plants combat the wind by being low growing with either needle like leaves or by having very tiny leaves. This not only lets the wind pass through, but also helps the plant hold tight to moisture as the wind tries to whip it away.

Unwelcomed Visitor
June 11, 2006 - Unwelcomed Visitor. Not terribly full of poison, but these guys still need to stay outside!

May 2005
These bloomed beautifully for about a month in 2005. They did not reappear in 2006. Looking forward to seeing them again some day.