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Weather shapes our lives.

We have had great winter weather for humans, but a little more rain will be good for the fish. The San Lorenzo River has had extreme low flows for the month of January and, so far, most of February.

Teacher and football coach Doug Morris looks up at senior Kyle Todd’s layup during San Lorenzo Valley High’s annual seniors-versus-teachers basketball game, which the seniors won 51-40

I plan to turn over a new leaf next year. I'm talking about gardening. The rest of my New Year's resolutions are too numerous to list here! I wish I could tell you that I'll never put in another plant that might freeze during the winter. I wish I could tell you that I'll really start that compost pile this year and duke it out with the raccoons. I wish I could tell you I'll make more garden journal entries and not rely on sketchy memories. But the reality is gardening shouldn't be so much about regrets. It's about the delight we get from coaxing plants from the earth. A garden reflects our lives; there’s always room for growth as well as reflection.

Few things can compare with walking on a scenic woodland trail lined with wildflowers. Now that it's officially spring, I recently took a hike in Quail Hollow Ranch County Park to see what I could find.