Spring is really taking it's time to arrive here in Vancouver. Normally, the shops would be brimming with Spring produce by now: Broad (fava) beans would be just beginning, English peas may be early and the streets would be full of glowing cherry blossoms in all shades of pink, cream and white. Instead, the cherry blossoms are hardly blooming, there isn't a pea or bean to be found and the sleety rain persists, last night keeping us awake with it's pitter-patter on our window. It seems Punxsutawney Phil was correct. A trip to my local organic market with such anticipation was instead fraught with frustration. Grabbing some cartons of cute little fruits was all I could do to console myself, one of which was kumquats.
