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I see the evidence of their industry all around the vineyard and in the dirt road out back. There must be a billion ants out there, maybe more. I read one article that speculates that there are 100 trillion of them in the world, equaling the weight of...

On Monday we visited friends J & N for afternoon "tea." We started with N's freshly made margaritas and a selection of home-baked cakes. J had made individual financier-style cakes with strawberries, a very light apricot cake, and a stylish pumpkin...

I asked one of the people who work in the vineyard why these flags were tied to end posts in regular intervals. It turns out that they're there to indicate which row to drive the large sprayer down when the vines are being treated against fungus. The...

This is another of one of our neighbor's rose bushes. It grows against her fence along the road. Capturing the intensity of the red color without losing the detail is not easy, but the post-processing software helps to fix that.
Very red roses.
It's time today to finish planting the vegetable garden. The eggplant and peppers and some collard green seedlings are going in. Some of the seedlings are still a little small, but in they go....