Under the Solano Sun

Most people are familiar with a red pomegranate variety called 'Wonderful', which is commonly sold in most nurseries.

It's 99 degrees outside and I am pooped! The only chores on my list for today were moving and spraying the suckering growth around the base of my olive tree a joke on a neighbor's wrong id of the African Sumac tree in my front yard.

Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) just might be one of civilization's oldest crops.

On Saturday, August 11th a New Sensory Garden and a bench in honor of Mary Bourguignon were dedicated at the Fairfield Civic Center Library on Kentucky Street. Mary Bourguignon was a lifetime community activist and Fairfield library supporter.

A few evenings back, driving into town, I saw a young woman park her minivan next to a field of sunflowers. She and a little girl got out of their car and walked up to the flowers.