Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for December 2011.
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden in central Indiana, I'd expect by now to have a scene like this one from December 2010, when there was snow on the ground and the temperatures were consistently below freezing.
But as they say, that was then and this is now and nothing is ever the same, even though from year to to year we think it
