Early autumn pasta with pesto
As you know from earlier posts, I love basil. And I love to use it for pesto in pasta, rice, or on baked fish. Here is a bowl of farfalle...
Even a little rain is great!
raindrop on the branch of the lemon tree I couldn't believe my eyes and ears when it started to rain a few evenings ago. A few rainclouds...
September food for bees
California carpenter bee female xylocopa californica on Sapphire salvia. It's taking extra vigilance in this heat to keep the bee food...
Life in the fig tree
Gulf fritillary butterfly on ripening Mission fig Now that the Mission figs are starting to ripen, there is all kind of activity going on...
The promise of fruit
Between our drought conditions and plague of white fly, the poor Lisbon lemon tree is really undergoing a lot of stress. I have been...
Lovely little umber skipper
Umber skippers are very small butterflies, that could almost be mistaken for moths. They visit our garden very often, usually in pairs....
Busy bees
Honey bee on brown fennel flower head So much vegetation is drying up in the garden, but as I walked around the garden today it was so...
Inviting butterflies
butterfly bush buddleja alternifolia flower cluster We provide food for butterflies too. The butterfly bush growing in a container pot in...
At the University of California Native Bee Garden
Honey bee on a sunflower Yesterday we went to a talk and guided tour of the Urban Bee Lab Experimental Garden in Berkeley. Docent Carol...
Time for harvesting
I know this isn't a big deal to people who grow a lot of produce, but we harvested all of these Early Girl tomatoes this weekend from one...
