#7: June Reflections

Today is No Kings Day. I am traveling back to sanity, Mendocino California, to my bubble to catch my breath. The Farm has always been a place of retreat & reset. The garden is planted, strawberries & cherries are getting ripe, & it’s time to up-pot the basil. It’s also time to get back in the studio & finish a couple of linocuts for an upcoming show at the Stanford Inn’s Ravens Restaurant with the Mendocino Eco Artists.

It’s a breezy and unseasonably cold Solstice weekend. The garden continues to grow and change weekly, our Pollinator Party Place continues to nourish our bees, butterflies & moths. From fruit tree blossoms to salvia & anise, they flit here and there. Our yearly visit from the flock of California Pigeons adds flapping music to the experience of sitting in the sun. They eat most of the cherries on trees to tall to net, with an occasional Royal Ann harvest for us. The American cherries are abundant here- they are small and not sweet, so we are glad the birds appreciate them. The strawberries are netted and for us to eat if we can beat the slugs & snails to the ripe ones. The sunflowers will be knee high by the 4th of July. Our northern slope exposure and redwood forest don’t allow enough sun for corn. Maybe some cherry tomatoes will ripen if we don’t have too much fog this summer. So far so good.


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