Juvenile Northern Mockingbird enjoying our backyard bounty of Elderberries #NorthernMockingbird #BirdPhotography #Birds #Yarden #Fujifilm #SOoC
Happy mulch watering day to those that celebrate it
Comcast is simplifying its Xfinity internet plans and dropping data caps:
The plans will include unlimited data with no data caps, spokesperson Joel Shadle confirms to The Verge. They’ll also come with an Xfinity WiFi Gateway and a free line of Xfinity Mobile cellular service for one year.
About time Xfinity removes data caps. You must opt in to the new plans and they won’t reduce the cost if you opt out from their equipment.
In case you wondered why there are roadless areas on Forest Service land, Zeke Lunder has a good video discussing that. Roadless areas exist due to ruggedness of terrain and lack of timber. Yes, I guarantee those lands were considered in the log everything era of the 1960s-1980s.
Overnight, an unusual but small M3.6 earthquake happened north of us in Redding, Ca. Crystal clear detection but we slept through any shaking (possibly too far for surface shaking here) #Earthquake recorded on the #RaspberryShake #CitizenScience

Day 3 of the Micro.blog June Photo Challenge: Shadow
L-188 Electra, operated by AirSpray, at Chico, CA (KCIC)
#MBJune #Aviation #AvGeek

We’ve a bumper crop of volunteer Holy Basil plants and we’re extremely pleased #Yarden
Today we suspended shade cloth over the avocado trees. The trees will now survive 100°F+ temperatures coming later this week. Heatwaves are on the way to California!
#Yarden #Gardening #AvocadoTrees #HomeOrchard #California #CaWx
Yarden pool season has begun. Rubber ducks (and more elsewhere) serve as life rafts for insects. Most of this water was carried over from last year.