Slowly warming over the weekend, but not enough to call spring. It’s this time of year especially when I miss the springs of South Texas and Middle Tennessee, or even the Kansai, which are already under way. This time last year, San Antonio was greening up nicely.

Such as at the Sunken Gardens, officially the Japanese Tea Gardens, when we visited last year. I expect it looks this way again about now, complete with greenery along with edge of expansive koi ponds.

We discovered that the garden also sports some plant graffiti. Floroffiti, maybe?

Other places were greening, too. But not that green. At Mission San Juan, the grass was still its usual winter brown.

Grass also gets brown under the heat of summer, which can last a long time. So it’s better to say that the predominant color of South Texas grass is brown, with interludes of green at certain times of the year.

This was the San Jose Burial Park, which isn’t far from Mission San Juan.

We didn’t spend much time there, but it looked like a peaceful burial ground, not much known expect by people who live nearby.