Faking out the flowers

Its a little known secret that Denver has the best weather ever. We have seasons, but our winter is relatively dry. People think that since people come here to ski, we must have heaps of snow all winter long. The truth is that the snow lives in the mountains...and Denver only gets some. So most weeks look like a day or two of chilly weather, maybe some snow. Then, the sky clears, the sun comes out and the snow melts! Then, we see a few days of temperatures as high as 70 degrees F! That's right, we have 300 sunshiny days a year on average. That's one reason I like it here so much. This past week we had days from the mid-50s to mid-70s. And of course, the flowers are getting very confused in the middle of February: