That’s so cheesy, but I can’t resist. Here’s some hebe I picked up for myself. It looks so perfectly evergreen and suited to winter it’s surprising to learn that it’s so widespread in New Zealand. I love hebe so much I want to join the Hebe Society.

It’s definitely feeling California fall/winter around here, or as my mother described in this morning’s email: “COOL AND SUNNY AND CLEAR.” (emphasis hers) There are white cotton-y clouds moving more quickly than they look—I know because I had to reset my camera about fifty times when taking these pictures.

Cool and sunny and clear is a great description for narcissus and I just got this season’s first paperwhites. I can’t believe it’s that time of year again. They were my wedding flower, so it’s always particularly striking to see and smell them again.

And the sun comes out:

And goes behind a cloud:

All right, that’s all for today. Back to work.