I'm a bit ahead of you, although substantially behind most of my neighbors; my pear trees are just today breaking bloom, and the random remnants of abandoned cow pear orchards (that stand where the freeway or subdivisions took out the original farms) have been blooming for a week.

Of course there's double curls of storm systems out in the North Pacific today and I may well have pears when other's do not!

Julia, the trees in the middle reminded me that you are on an island, indeed.