![[sky telegraph]](http://x-pollen.com/tubers/pix/plumtrees/falsespring.jpg)
Mailed a birthday card, bought some champagne, returned a video, snapped some pictures. The plum trees have turned a lurid crimson maroon. The recent rain has polished the lens of the sky to its east-bay finest. You wouldn’t believe how many pictures of clouds I’ve taken over the years.