2 brief rainstorms here in Northern California foothills since last April.  Temps been in 70’s during daylight hours.  I ride my scooter to office around 8:30 AM with a sweater and jacket and again in evening at dusk.  during the day I need shorts on.  Tried it yesterday and froze on the way home <G>.

This past weekend we dug up the summer vegetable crops and hauled it all to the community compost pile.  Took the truck into town for a load of fresh compost (still warm) and turned into the garden areas with more phosphate then we planted about 200 tulip bulbs followed by various winter green vegetables as an experiment.  Will post photos later if successful.

The fall colors are finally beginning to appear.  Not as striking as in, say Portland, nevertheless still remarkable with most leaves still on tree.This seems unusual, as I am normally out raking them all up by now.  Why do it twice though.? After all, I only mow the lawn once per year.

Will it rain for THanksgiving? If it does then we will truly be thankful.

We work hard all summer and then spend days preparing to depart and then spend 3 days traveling and seeing freinds, then finally arrive at beach.  What do we do?  Sleep…Feels good.  Quiet and rejuvenating.  Walks on beach, good coffee.  Sunsets, Divine Mother exuding the prana everywhere.

Just returned home to triple digit temperatures and Sraddha gave me a tour of our garden.  Imagine my surprise when I saw the tomato plants. One of them is over 7 feet tall.  We have huge cages around them and stakes in the middle and are tying them up.  Not ripe yet but this hot weather will help. Soon we will have plenty to share.

seven foot tomato plant

Still only 1/2 mile visibility here due to wildfire smoke. normally California has about 30,000 acres burned as of this time of year but there is 190,000 acres already burned and no end in site. Like a war zone here in foothills. Going south to get out of it. Nothing real near us to cause concern but smoke is real bad. Can’t spend much time outdoors. Even smell it inside a bit at times. Slight headache from the smoke. Wonder how the birds and animals cope?
More dry lightening anticipated for this weekend. Let’s pray we will be ok.

Fire season here. Lightning strikes over weekend not only knocked out power for a while, but also caused almost 4,000 fires throughout Northern CA. Sunday was pleasantly warm and windy. Monday now is smoke filled. More like an August day, than June.

Feels quiet, subdued, almost eery outside.