Our cherry tree had its first bloom today.
There are many **vision**s brewing in these caskets at [Moksa Brewery](https://moksabrewing.com).
Alcohol dreaming to escape their bottles. Later, I had a dry gin martini on the rocks.
Ember leaping from a pepper roasting over a gas flame.
2020 Spring: Blooms to Come
Here in the Northern Sacramento Valley of California, the blooming seems to be happening all at once with the unusually dry and warm late winter.
Apricot is about to start blooming:
The cherry will be blooming soon too:
Western Red Bud (Cercis occidentalis) is about to bloom:
California lilacs (Ceanothus ) “Ray Hartman” are about to bloom:
And here’s a California gilia.
First front yard California poppy bloom of the year.
We love this red curry paste. Fortify it with fresh lemon grass! 🌶🌶🌶🥵
Glad I’m not below that cherry picker.
Our cherry tree’s super close **together** buds are opening up! Soon flower buds will rapidly drop on stems, bloom, and then by late May... ripe cherries! If the birds don’t get them first.
This horse won’t escape… though I feel jumping the fence is easily within its abilities.
In 2010: Plenty of limestone & marble rock hurdles in the Marble Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, Northern California.
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Experimenting with our first bird feeding station. Suet with seed for a variety of birds.
The dull spectacle of me trying to figure out the kitchen sink’s plumbing. My iPhone is a handy remote eye, well suited for dark, tight spaces.
Progress. Nectarine is growing!
A tan greywacke sandstone from the Northern California Coast Range (Franciscan Assemblage bedrock). cm scale.
The pull to “like” on Twitter is impressive. I’m doing my best to refrain but my finger has a mind of its own.
Never for want of space in California’s Central Valley. Those grapes will be waking up soon.
Hard to oppose California’s almond bloom! ❤️ Our apricot will bloom mid March and the cherry late March (but it’s nearly girdled by boring beetles).
