Icy mornings here in the mountains, frost on the neighbor's roof, the cat glued to the warm spot in the bed. The new thermometer on the front porch reads in the low 30s in the pre-dawn dark.

But we're in the midst of a freakish streak of hot weather -- it was in the 80s at the beach yesterday, on its way to being even warmer today.

Either way, the sky has been beautifully blue, so is this shot of winter trees in Paradise Cove from the frigid or from the torrid part of the day?

Not telling.