early spring

This is great news. 

This is great news. 

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This week, we're taking a look at the West Coast of the U.S. in a show dedicated to one of the largest, and wackiest, states in the nation - California. No stranger to the craft beer world, California is brimming with tons of breweries, and many of them are quite famous. It all started in this state with Anchor Brewing, and has grown like wildfire since then.

Time was when hit with some insomnia on a night in early Spring, I might have taken to the road and found some forgotten diner and sipped coffee, had some pie, maybe play the jukebox and strike an Edward Hopper moment of timelessness.

Dare I type it out loud, but we may have had our last frost here in Nashville. Last year, of course, we had 2-3 nights of temps in the teens in mid-April, damaging lots of trees, shrubs and emerging crops. I still have one bush that's limping along from that episode [not the one I wanted to die, of course].

Dare I type it out loud, but we may have had our last frost here in Nashville. Last year, of course, we had 2-3 nights of temps in the teens in mid-April, damaging lots of trees, shrubs and emerging crops. I still have one bush that's limping along from that episode [not the one I wanted to die, of course].

Low-level clouds and a northwest wind teaming up to make for a winter-like day here in early Spring. Highs will only reach around 50 degrees today. Light snow has been the story up on the Rim and Plateau since last night; it continues this morning before changing over to light rain. Flurries and a [...]