this is my best hot weather life shirt…..work shirt.    Cotton/Linen.   the exact right combination thereof.  Trying to catch Cinderella it got ripped the second time.   Same piece of fencing caught it and the L shape rip.  Once.  Twice, bigger.  Trying to catch a Free  Goat.     mend.   ???   but…

   a dicot.  an annual herb native to California.  Habitat,  slopes  Family asteraceae

      Alyssia had appointments today at the VA in Sacramento.  Kids were here.  Julian, almost 9,  his first day  back from his father's in New Jersey for the summer.   Emrie is enamored by her brother.     i got this book for him,  for us,  for the library of the Hill.  …

all that,  yesterday,  nothing new.  it's a familiar place,  that Wishing.  Wishing i would be how i am not.   To be an artist,  an artist of anything,  requires devotion.  Requires that whatever it is,  is Primary in your day.  As it is for say, Jude,  Mo,  Judy Martin.   Their day circles their Art.…

  She is about to bloom.  For sure,  then,  we will know her  "name".   But when you "google" her,  there's not much information.  In comparison to what she really IS…living near her.  As i type this,  her scent rises from my hands….a soft brief touch when i was giving water,  and her scent lingers,…

not me.  I went off to the Farmer's Market.  Jenny and Alyssia had arrived before 7am.  No indication of anything.  We walked the part of the fence that was loose.  Talked.  Nothing out of the ordinary.  Tay and i left for town and the Market.  But in the short time i was gone Much. i…

What if?  What if because of being Only One,  you decided to weave yourself in?  and What if they didn't mind?  And you became the Lead?  Talkie.  a Chicken.  a single Chicken became a part of the herd this morning.  Not just a part of the herd,  but the one that went Ahead.  First.  With…

an hour and a half of constant commentary.  No chit chat.  We walked.  He wanted to begin at the highest point.  That would be at the far top C.   and we wove back and forth,  looking,  noticing,  him talking,   us listening.  He asked many questions about our hopes,  our imagined use.  our imagined…

almost Dark.  3 kinds of   "spring peepers",  tree frogs in the Wall Garden.    Kinds,  meaning coloring.  One copper bronze with a VERY dark stripe at the eye.  A brown green spotted one.  and then a Bright orangeish.  All the same body.  Just the difference in coloring.   Still,  enough Kale for sharing.  …