We seem to have come out the other side of the atmospheric river. We had little streams crossing the property, and one place where water was spouting out of the…
A lull this morning, before the rain comes again — an atmospheric river is headed our way. Atmospheric rivers are relatively long, narrow regions in the atmosphere – like rivers…
I walked into town this morning to get my husband some treats from Brickmaiden Breads. Walking is my #1 sanity saver these days. If I don't walk, I don't feel right. It almost…
Doesn't this pomegranate just glow? I dropped off a calendar at a friend's house in Petaluma yesterday morning. There in her yard was a whole shrub of them. I chose…
You'll notice that I'm differentiating the alstroemeria parts — what I used to call petals, the larger ones around the middle of this mandala, are actually sepals. The smaller striped ones…
The last of the summer flowers are hanging in there, in spite of colder nights and mornings. The dahlia leaves are turning dark. They keep blooming, and then soon the…
Social media mess yesterday, eh? Where else can we go to connect? I realized yesterday that FB and IG are where most people view them. I have this bIog on my…
It's been eight weeks without sugar. I haven't really missed it, though I sometimes get a thought, "wouldn't it be nice..." Recently, I was offered and took a bite of savory…
Flying on angel wings, angel wing begonias that is. There are a few different types of begonias, these being cane begonias. They're named that because the stems look like bamboo…
You have to make do with what you have, right? Here's a story that my husband found as we were cleaning up files. Itzak Perlman, the renowned violinist, was playing in NYC. He…