A new edition of the Angwin Telephone Book is for sale now. It has been three years since the 2006 edition, and the update edition contains more than 300 changes. People have moved to Angwin, moved away, died, divorced, changed their address or added a phone number. You name it.

The Book is more than a listing of names and addresses. It also contains information pages on Angwin rainfall. Angwin history, Average weekly high and low temperatures, Sunset table, Street map and Angwin Business Directory.

Generous people have sponsored full-page tributes to The Neighborhood Table, the 4-H Club, the Pathfinders, the Angwin Teen Center, Angwin Community Services, and the Ambulance volunteers. Thanks to Dr. Pieter and Sarah VandenHoven, Randy and Lori Dunn, Jim and Diane Clifton, Rodney and Margaret Friedrich, John and Ruth Hasso, and Dr. Delmer and Marlyn Fjarli. The Telephone Book is an Angwin institution - more than 40 years old. Lyle and Ruth McCoy started it and put out numerous editions. Duane Cronk has published the last seven editions, usually in two-year intervals.

Almost every family in Angwin will pick up a copy. The price is still $8.00 The cover photo on the new edition was taken of a new snowfall at sunrise, up on Summit Lake Drive, the highest elevation in Angwin.

Angwin resident Adam Pease, a classical clarinetist, was key player in a concert by the musical group Quintilion in St. Helena this last week.

Quintillion presented Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Brahms' Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, and Osvaldo Golijov's "Dreams and Prayers of Isaac, the Blind," Quintet for Clarinet and Strings.

Adam has been playing the clarinet since he was 10 years old. He took private lessons from the well-known Keith Wilson at Yale University and has performed in Bay Area symphony orchestras. He is past president of the Palo Alto Fortnightly Music Club.

Adam has been a community activist since moving to Angwin several years ago. He was the top vote-getter to the Board of Directors of the Howell Mountain Mutual Water Company and is an active member of the Steering Committee of Save Rural Angwin.

In his professional life, Adam is CEO of Articulate Software, and has distinguished himself internationally as a computer consultant in ontology, natural language understanding and formal reasoning.

We know it's winter in Angwin when the first rains come, after months of cloudless skies. When the hillsides turn green, when the first snows fall in the high Sierra and the kids clamor to go skiing, when the snow geese from the Far North descend on the rice fields, when the Pacific storms throw 20-foot swells against the Sonoma coast, when our neighbor lady covers her favorite plants against a freeze, and you have to push the cat out the door in the morning.

But even on our shortest days, we knew that Springtime would be a-coming.

Today, the yellow mustard is blooming in the leafless vineyards, and early flowers are dabs of color all around town. Daffodils, violets, and quince. The smell of daphne is in the air. Everybody's acacia trees are blooming. So are the bay, the camphor, the odd loquat, the almond, the plum, and the manzanita. Tomorrow . .. well, maybe a freezing spell, a week of rain, or a snowfall on the cherry blooms. Mother Nature saying, "Hey, don't get in too big a hurry, down there."

But today, Angwin is a splatter of Springtime colors against a blue sky. And the prediction of the poet comes true: