A mix of sun and rain, and sometimes windy, that's how March usually is.  It's been somewhat on the warm side, though, and the mountains are really short on snow accumulation.  Depending on how you compare, we are either right on track (calendar year) or a bit ahead (water year) with the amount of precipitation we have had.  Fire danger is low, but the supply of dead fine fuels that is a result of the wet spring last year could present a problem this summer.  Birds are nesting and weeds are growing.  Probably due to soggy soils, a couple more dead standing trees have fallen down.  There are still a lot of ants about - nothing like the vast numbers we saw last week for a short time, but if you look carefully, no matter where you are around here, you can probably find an ant, and maybe quite a few.  Lawns are getting their growth in a bit early.  The internet provider is hard at work in our neighborhood trying to install underground fiber optic cables.  The work seems to be going slowly, but I do not know if water is a factor in that.  A pit that they dug for a connector site just across the lane from us was not more than 3 feet deep, but it looked like a good well - filled right up almost to the top with water.  I don't see farmers working the ground right now, but some are planting nursery stock, or pruning or weeding.  The past 3 days have been fairly dry, and we have slightly runny noses.  The red alder and hazelnuts should be at about the end of their pollination shortly, and then we expect the cottonwoods and maples and ash to begin.  It got so warm yesterday, that I entirely removed the little greenhouse cover from my brassica and lettuce seedlings so they wouldn't wilt.  The quince is in full bloom, and a neighbor's domestic cherry tree, but the bitter cherry trees are holding out still.  The flowering plum that is often very early is not blooming yet.  Snowberry and poison oak are spouting their new leaves, and some blackberry vines also.