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for the second time the hottest day s  ever recorded for Planet Earth this week

Alyssia brought a mist~er.   it's up under the Morning Tree by the bench Jenny made where the kids make music.  the  2 faux adirondack chairs.    not far from the pile of  logs from the fallen bough.  Where  one small and one larger lizard live.   Even tho i wasn't planning to go there,  i imagined they might like it so i turned it on.   

the mourning doves came just before first light as usual    calling back and forth   to bring in the day   and as i stitched those Kantha stitches lost in that repetition rhythm  i realized that i was hearing that Whistle  over and over…the wing whistle from the specialized feathers as air rushes through them     on take off     and  landing    at the mister.    it's been 105.

and this morning i listen   NPR    about California's newest state park.    Dos Rios is supposed to flood ~ it's a floodplain,  recently transformed into California's newest state park.   It  opened this summer,   emerging among the neverending rows of agriculture the valley is known for.  It's a lush 2.5 square miles now bursting with hundreds of thousands of native trees, bushes and animals.  River otters,  beaver and water fowl.    Dos Rios,  named for the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers that meet at the edge  is the first new state park in more than a decade."    it goes on…i'd put it all here if i could,  but you can go find it if you want to .   I hope you do.    it is also a place where the Northern Sierra Miwok tribe  have created a 3 acre Native Use Garden…in consultation with  the Basket Weavers Association who " put together planting palettes of native plants..like a mood board for plants   that would be beneficial to the habitat,  but also for Indigenous medicinal and cultural practices."

NPR July 25  California's newest state park is like a time machine   Jonaki Mehta, Christopher Intagiata and Alisa Chang

as the morning went along,   it happened….the lizards …..back and forth…at first,  hesitant but then not at all.

Beginning Monday the  29th,   Joy Reid   MSNBC   6pm   for the entire week will devote her shows to reading  through Project 2025 with and for us.     one of the things proposed is to sell off public lands.