Not Your Typical Winter Scenery

 I've been getting pop-up ads and emails advertising winter photography contests.  I don't think I have any winners here, so I won't be entering.  But at least I'm documenting what's really happening around here.  From the looks of my roof, you'd think we were in Seattle, not the Sierra.

 A wasp nest with a few cells still filled.  I wonder if there's still life in them.  We're having such a spell of warm, rainy weather, that nothing would surprise me at this point.  Lots of Chorus frogs chorusing. 

And lots of ants waiting for us to get careless with our sugar or honey.  The mild weather is sort of pleasant in one sense, but I sure wish we'd have a much needed winter.