typepad is unreliable.   words disappear.   so…when it happens a couple times,  i will just leave the pics.   like now.   

  Nogal's forest that we have left closed.   In the last couple weeks become a Thistle Forest????   Many.   Some taller than i am.  An unlikely place,   shady,  fecund….a place for moss and fungus  beside having 3 small sunny glens.   But the Thistles are not in the sunny glens.  more ?????   Why?   am watching.

the   "weather"    rain again,  3 days now   and back to 50's things continue….    Malabar,   in front of Echinacea,  in front of Madder….inopportune place,     but There      self seeded     i will accept.    the neighbors hybrid wolf dogs loose today.   Not since the initial days when Tay and I  arrived here …

down the slope of the Hill,  across the creek,  across the access road,  over there,   the Spanish Broom is beginning to bloom.  You can smell it before you see it.     Because it went     on      ,   the winter of Rain had seemed so impossible to bear.    It's gone now.   There's  this. …

these light green leaves are the new growth of Valley Oak that grows primarily along CareFree Way,  around the canal/creek,  the Rooster Swamp.   This time around,  of the now 5th Spring of my having come here,   it is phenomenal.  Beauty Full and lush.  And i think how this is the direct result of the Winter…

along Carefree,  by the convergence of the seasonal stream and the canal/creek.   Too many to count.   Then none for the strip of the Rooster Swamp but again at the turn in from Old Olive…both sides of the road.   Ahead of those at B Garden…already full blooming.   I wonder if there is an awareness of finally…

blooms forming Soap root.   soon,   they will be ready and  bloom,  in late evening and on through the night.  Moths will come.   Closing with morning light. Amidst an ecstatic rush of all manner of Grasses.    As if all and any seed had waited,  dormant,  sleeping  through the drought years for just this moment in…

for months of the Other Way,  the RAIN way….when we all disappeared from EachOther,  but now…these few days in the  90's even….the 90's!    Hose water in a plate…Safe drinking for Lizards.