This is February 17, 2012 and very few mesquites begin to awaken

The old Indian adage is that when the mesquite waked up from winter, winter was over, will use my new Blogger tool of sending you a post from my email when I see them, in this area, all definitely awaken.
If you are coming out of your cave, you can tell it is just about there.
Saludos salud suerte
George  

This is March 2010

Curious enough the mesquite, in it's majority are still sleep [no new leaves visible]. An old indian adage said that only when the mesquite awoke(?) did Spring really start.
Many other trees are all sporting new leaves and a few mesquites but not the majority.
Guess it is backing what the ground hog said, long winter!