The Plowman Shall Overtake the Reaper

Here in Carlsbad, we don't really have winter, just a "cool season" and a "warm season". We can have a vegetable garden all year, and there are always flowers blooming. As soon as the days start to get longer in mid-January, we start to see all kinds of spring blooms. Usually the new blooms are coming on the trees even beore last season's leaves have fully turned color and fallen off. People around here don't think anything of it, but this Eastern boy appreciates how wierd this really is. Here's a picture of a flowering plum tree I took this morning:

I'm reminded of Amos 9:13 where Amos said, "The plowman shall overtake the reaper." He was prophesying of a land so bountiful that while the plowman is planting for the next season, the reapers will still be harvesting last year's crop. Although Amos wasn't talking about San Diego, our land here is so productive, and our climate is so mild that the trees think it is fall and spring at the same time!