With more rain, the angle of the sun and the warm days, the Laguna de Santa Rosa is stumbling out of winter.  Mustard patches are showing and  grazing pastures are carpeted with thick green grass.  Still, the storms keep moving in, climbing an uphill battle against the drought.

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Mustard blooms beneath a gray sky at the Laguna de Santa Rosa, Wednesday March 5, 2014. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014

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Bud Pozzini of the Double Tree Ranch and Saddle Shop lives on the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sebastopol, Wednesday March 5, 2014. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014

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Bud Pozzini of the Double Tree Ranch and Saddle Shop mends a fence between his property and the Dei Dairy Ranch in the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sebastopol, Wednesday March 5, 2014. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014

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Bud Pozzini of the Double Tree Ranch and Saddle Shop walks through knee high grass in the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sebastopol, Wednesday March 5, 2014. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014

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A kite keeps watch from a snag at the Laguna de Santa Rosa, Wednesday March 5, 2014. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014

-Kent Porter

 

 

 

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