Yep, my brother who lives up in Redding also said his trees are budding out. Sure strange, it seems every time we are up there in the Feb. it is raining like heck!
Never seen one of those before, that's purty. We've had a pretty mild winter here and got up to 52 so I was able to get out and do a little digging in soft ground. Globe willows seem to come in first around here and but with lows in the twenties might be a bit out yet.