For Earth Day, bees on the elderberry and the avocado.

This HUGE bumble bee really wants the Toyon flowers to open up! Been buzzing around for several minutes.

Today’s Clarkias and Poppies.

Homemade Naan atop a piping hot Baking Steel.

First bloom of our backyard California wild roses (Rosa Californica)!

Today, first time in weeks flour and sugar could be bought 🥳 go King Arthur flour!

Snakefly hunting insects on a bed of elderberry flowers.

Warmer than usual weather means Peppers are rapidly sprouting. We direct seeded this year as an experiment.

Yarrow is now in bloom and the carpet beetles are gorging themselves on pollen.

Seen at lunch: iNaturalist guesses this is a Leafhopper Assassin bug on our California grape. Assassins in our back yard! A good bug!