Cilantro & Carolina jessamine

Amazing to harvest fresh cilantro in mid-January for our black bean chili - tonight's dinner.  Normally it would have long have been frozen out by now.

And, I noticed the first Carolina jessamine flowers outside my study window, too.  Not to mention the crocuses that have popped up over the last few days, too.

Hmm, can spring really be on the way?  It's sort of feeling like that, as I'm weeding out the chickweed and henbit from my containers, and am faced with an explosion of winter annuals out in the garden!