It may not have been the coldest or wettest Santa Cruz County winter on record, but it might have been the most miserable. The 2010-2111 rainy season gave us record low temperatures, warnings of snow on the beach, a tsunami surge that wrecked the harbor and, three days after the official start of spring, massive storms that flooded Capitola. So when spring finally arrived for real last week with a warm spell and a burst of blossoms, people went kind of crazy. Which is a good thing–especially if, like us, you happen to know someone with a camera who can document the whole lovely bloomin’ thing. Slide show below.
Photographs by Adam Freidin, Shawn Hatjes, Anthony Mayes, Pete Saporito, Chip Scheuer, Carlie Statsky, Maya Weeks
