Seasonal reversal

Here in California, the hills are yellow or brown for most of the year. Only for a couple brief months in the spring do they sport green grass, and even then, it is not the bright Irish green of the East.

(Indeed, I find that shade of green sort of lurid. It just looks unnatural and wrong for grass to be that green.)

But we have had several days of rain now, and suddenly the hills are fresh and verdant! You've heard of Christmas in July... this is Easter in December. It looks as out of place as Santa Claus on the beach.