The wet/dry scale may be near normal, but it is warm.  Fire danger is low, but... see the picture for all the dead vegetation left from last year that will become tinder if it remains standing until it dries!  Hazelnuts and red alders are tossing out pollen.  Forsythia and quince are in full bloom, but the bitter cherry is not.  Blackberry vines and snowberry are growing their new leaves. Shephard's purse, nemophilas, phacelias, and galiums are growing rapidly but not blooming - no sign yet of the usually abundant claytonias.  Oxalis oregana (in a sheltered location) has been blooming for over a week.  My spinach has sprouted (I regret that I didn't plant some 2 weeks ago.  Birds are nesting and ants of numerous species have been VERY plentiful; running all over on warm evenings, flying, and biting!  Flickers, who should be here feasting, are evidently elsewhere - maybe partly because I found a snag that had fallen this week that had a nice, almost 3" hole in it.  The barn cats have really reduced the rodents around the barn, and we haven't seen possums or raccoons lately.  The deer also seem to be avoiding us, prefering to hang out up the hill.  The watershed to the east of us had their property cleared and perhaps planted this winter, so maybe our deer lost their cover.  The area upstream looks pretty barren.  Soil is damp and easily worked.  The chicken flock has done a nice job of eating all the weeds in my garden and raking it well, and the most recent heavy rain exposed a lot of small rocks which will be easy to rake up and move to more useful places.  On the other hand, weeds are again trying to take over the access road.