Monthly Archive: June 2023

Gabriel’s quilt

It’s so rainy and overcast, I’m in a bubble of cloudy weather. Better than being under a heat dome. I don’t spend much time in the garden though, too wet. I hope the seedlings...

Summer

On today’s walk. A real feeling of June and solstice, with the blooming beach roses and the morning fogs. Looking at this photo later, I can conjure up the scent of the roses and...

Stitching houses

I’ve decided to handstitch the houses on to the backgrounds. I have three done, almost four. The colors look washed out in the photos below. They are much more interesting in person, I think....

In the fruit yard

I stopped in the fruit yard. Not to do any thing in particular, just to say hello. Raspberries, blackberries, some struggling strawberries and lots of grapes. And potatoes because there’s room for them there....

Beyond beautiful

It can be hard to absorb how beautiful it can get around here. The lupines are in bloom. Fields of them. And the ocean (bay), so peaceful. I worked at the community garden today....

Days of rain

I transplanted some plants from the property into my circle garden. Then there were four days of rain. Needless to say the transplants are doing well. And the columbine I bought at the plant...

Stitching fervor, and some silence

My winter of making squares has come to an end. My spring of patching them together is beginning. I subscribe to India Flint’s Substack “floribundineum.” Today she posted this Wendell Berry poem. I liked...