zucchini  fritters    round two.    with ketchup and Huy Fong Sriracha 

it began like any other,    wake,  become upright,  make Tea,  drink Tea,   watch daylight unfold,   feed Goats,  Cook,  feed self,   Little Sleep,  20 minutes,  second Tea like any other but then i took up the Sketch Book,   noticing how few pages are left in this one and turned to the first.    and it…

i said she didn't need to  "pose",    that it was the carrot i wanted the pic of……. we were Curious and it won out….one for her,  one for me and this one we brought up for Alyssia when she came.   Such a BRIGHT CLEAR    Carrot y    taste  even at this beginning.   …

well into the Dark time,     it  rained.       end of the month of June…..it rained.    maybe 3 minutes           Sudden,   the sound and then…the smell        RAIN and   like the flick of a switch….ON   OFF.     Big    drops      like these.         …

  outside B Garden….looking In and Up   inside B Garden looking Out and  Up                         Thinking.   It's called    Climate Crisis.   not      climate change.    i think about Joanna Macy.      i hesitate to say much about Fire Season.    i…

no neeed to check maps…or worry i will talk about it later this eve……clarify how it just IS …..fire season.     Love and Love    

  a Beauty Full thing that happened in the compost.    like a sculpture…if of wood or stone   or clay     it's 10:30      i'm  awake.     listening for the very distinctive sound of the Alert from the Fire App.     every  15 minutes or so they name the fires according to roads nearby. …

so.     What the lizards have taught me.    the two of them,  Uno and Dos   who i have met/meet at Jack Flash's gate every morning no later than 11am             what they have taught,  among many other things,   is      motion.    Awareness.   Awareness of motion.     even the…

following Liz's  man's  lead,    i ordered.     and as i read the  pkging,  i saw that FoxFarm is almost a neighbor…Arcata!   So,  bright and early tomorrow morning…..am so Happy to offer this to all the plants that are working so so hard to respond to my big Ask.