First ripe backyard garden tomato of the year. 🌱🍅 There’ll be many more to come!

Cultivated California buckwheat (front yard) flowers being buzzed by a honeybee.

These Santa Fe peppers are prolific! They seem to be more resistant to disease than jalapeños. 🌱

I’ve always loved listening to entire albums, as is evidence by my iOS Shortcut to randomize complete albums in track order. I don’t need that anymore. The Albums app is everything I always wanted Music.app to be. Shoutout to MacStories for letting me know about it!

One variety of Cultivated California Fuchsias are full bloom in the front yard. This clump regularly blooms first, the others a month or two later.

This beneficial little mantis (and other excellent insects) is why we don’t use insecticide in our yards. 🌱

One day at 111°F in my sunny backyard and another at 105°F, and my Logitech Circle View doorbell has not overheated. Its circumstances: 24V 20VA transformer, north facing in the shade all day. I’m quite pleased with it.

Our fennel plants are managing fine in this 105°F+ heat. 🌱

Ooof. Though I have a suspicion my weather station measures higher than it should. It topped out at 111°F today.

That time of the year where we temporarily shade the avocado trees as they have a hard time taking up water fast enough during 105°F+ temperatures… yeah they don’t belong here. At all. 🌱