I was broken for a couple of weeks. Finally ground down my joints to their new normal and nerves have adjusted. My 1st walk in awhile today. Lovely out with flowers in the fruit trees and oranges and lemons shook off a few trees with the winds we have had.

The Yolo Bypass is flooded. This low ground is all that keeps Davis from physically being part of Sacramento. You can see Sacramento in the distance about 1/3 from the left side of the top picture on the horizon. Great clouds this morning.

The city has carved back the base of our fallen tree so it is now easy to access the drive way. They don't really know what to do at this point. As far as we are concerned, it can stay like that for months until a safe way to remove the stump presents itself. Only 1 foot away is the water line into the house and a stump grinder may just damage, through vibration, the water source. Any ideas? Also just finished taxes!!!

Desert candles blowing in the wind. Better pictures on camera and not this cell phone. I have wanted to see this plant for years. I also saw an adult female and baby desert tortoises late this afternoon. Very cool and a great end to the day.

2 tortoises, one big female and one small about year old baby. The older one was still in her burrow and i had to push the picture to see the head. Saw them within 10 minutes of each other. I was told to keep my eyes open for ravens because they are serious baby tortoise predators.

Time to aestivate. Too hot. The question is to climb into the hole Bax is digging outside the back door or in a ground squirrel hole or underneath an almond tree where the soil has been removed to a depth of about 5 feet. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

My oh my. The silly season seems to have hit. Maybe the heat is causing the weirdos to be out in force online today. I would rather enjoy the clouds

Some of the shishito peppers matured to red. They taste great too. I pour about 1 tsp oil on the peppers in a bowl and sprinkle with a bit of salt. They are cooked in a medium hot stainless steel pan and shuffled around for about 10 minutes. Easier and less dangerous than cooking them in a blistering hot layer of oil. These are not finished cooking.

The joys of growing from seed, yet another incel. However, the seed that germinated in the garden 1st week of February, yes February!, is 8 feet tall and definitely female.

Drove out if town today to pick up some boxes of peaches to make cobbler. Also stopped at a taco truck for breakfast.

I see some wonderful pictures from various people of birds and other animals. Here i present my not so wonderful pictures taken with a cell phone. Alligator lizards which have reproduced in the backyard. Blurry hummingbird in front yard. Turkey vulture. Fuzzy bird attacking fuzzy hawk. Crows with weird halos in dead tree. i try.

It was chicken soup with noodles night. My husband tested positive for covid this afternoon. Other than feeling slow and coughing a bit, he seems OK. Ever quarantine in your own home? Should be interesting. Now i will be back to wearing a face mask when i go out in public so i do not get others ill. I will keep close watch on him. Caught some woman trampling my Naked Ladies earlier as she was following a GPS location for a hurt cat. I am generally fine until you attack my plants and i lose it. I did lose it at her but kept backing up as she got closer because i could possibly spread covid now.

Today's dog walk to the graffiti bridge. Chicory is blooming there now and some of the bridge art is a chicory flower. A new neighbor across the street has two primal dogs she picked up in West Africa. One if from Senegal and the other from Mali. I thought they were litter mates. Probably the coolest dogs i have seen in town.

Lovely clouds again this morning. Stuff growing on a post. Critters have been eating unripe pistachio nuts. We found this little lizard in our dining room this afternoon and put it back outside.

Seems some critter is eating our flowers on the back porch at night. Three times now there have been remnants of various garden offerings outside the back door. This is today's find.