Thoughts of the Garden in Winter

This time last year, the snow was blowing and an entire panel blew off the greenhouse. But this winter has been different.  We've had seven weeks of incredibly mild temperatures.  The male cardinals are starting to sing and it won't be long until the great horned owls are hooting.  They start raising their young in the woods across from us in February. 

The winds are still howling and it's -4 degrees with the windchill, but in today's mail, we've received so many more seed catalogs that we must be close to 25 or more since November. What to order?  Whom shall we order from?  Are the seeds really all that different?  

All I know is that I want new annual salvias for all the hummingbirds that spend their summers in our garden.  Raised beds.  Some deer-resistant fencing.  And a little more time to spend with the flowers and veggies.  That's all I want for 2012.  More time.