Lavender blooming and Ice Plant

For the cold and snowbound

Pictures from a visit to the Farmer's Market (over a year ago.)

 

Spring is coming. Really!

Rosemary blooming

this little weed

This little weed. Reaching out
from a crack in the concrete.


Look what it has done -

found life on barely a sliver of earth.


I just can't bring myself to pull it out.

How could I?

more than green

Green is not the only color around here.

All of these flowers are in the front yard. I have absolutely NOTHING to do with any of these plants being alive. NOTHING.

I don't water, weed, feed, plant, or prune any of these. They are just there.

Like many things in my yard, they live on... no matter how much I neglect them.


I had to end with yellow. Such a happy color.

February Walk

The color of the day is GREEN.


It has been raining here lately. Not enough to reverse the perpetual California drought. But it turns everything green rather quickly.








The rain also makes the river run.

Yesterday's raindrops

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December yard

The rain, rain has gone away
This is the yard today

November yard

No interesting bugs this week. I looked and looked. They are all hiding from me. Just some random pictures from my backyard today.

These orange flowers are still hanging in there. I thought that they had finished blooming, but we've had a stretch of warm weather lately (high 80's) and they are bursting with new flowers.

I know this is blurry, but I like it.

Rosemary! I just discovered that we have a HUGE rosemary bush in our backyard. We've lived here for over 2 years and I never knew that. It is in the corner and I've never had any reason to go over to that corner. But when I did, I smelled something familiar that I couldn't quite identify. It took me a while to figure out what it was. Rosemary!

Some rosemary information from this website:

Rosemary is royal in stature. It stimulates sensitivity, increases creativity by lifting exhaustion, and philosophically awakens the heart. The Rosemary plant spills forth its fragrance in the midday sun. The aroma enables the human spirit to clear the mind and open blocked passages in the body allowing it to tap into the universal mind to receive and understand the assistance being sent forth from wiser beings. This brings the human spirit inner peace and contentment allowing us to remember who we are and perform the tasks needed on our spiritual path and assist others if we are asked.

Jeez....I wasn't planning to "tap into the universal mind" or anything. I thought I'd just try to cook with it.