Under the Solano Sun

Today the day's sunshine is close to its maximum, it's solstice time. When the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer 23.5 degrees north latitude, the axis of the earth is tilted to its maximum so the northern hemisphere gets its maximum number of daylight hours.

Our green hills are gone Replaced with dry yellow grasses Up to us to prevent fires...

For years, I have been buying flowers with Peruvian lilies in the bouquet because those beautiful lilies last and last for at least two weeks. I have longed to grow them myself and have coveted any neighbor who has the good fortune to grow them in their own front yards.

Arbor Day just passed, and we are now full on into allergy season. I hope that anyone who recently bought and planted a tree did a little prior research. Had I had been a smarter gardener years ago, I would have first researched the trees I planted more thoroughly.

This spring, while stepping out into my garden to make some plans for the upcoming summer vegetable garden, I noticed quite a few pollinators enjoying the winter vegetable plants that had begun the process of going to seed and flower production.