Chris Erskine: Energized to reach spring
We seem in a funk - post-holidays, post-football - peeking out the window to see whether spring is coming. You can almost imagine the summer scents: sunscreen, sausage on the grill, live bait, baseball. Yet not quite.
Even California finally got a dose of cold, and now rain, and some wet late-winter snow - heavy, high-grade Sierra butter.
The winter sun is still low, and the shards of light come in sideways on the starboard
