Six Words and Shadow Shot Sunday June 18-19, 2016

Lots of rain and snow this week!

 

 

Usually by now our wildflowers have to be tough to survive in this hard scrabble and rocky dirt. Even the weeds !

 

 

 

Not sure what the yellow flower above is, but

the flower below is Indian Paintbrush.

 

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, Mt Shasta has fresh snow and the sage

in my herb planter box is very happy. 

 

 

 

Supposedly by tomorrow the temperatures will

rise into the 80's....so I'll enjoy the cooler weather today!

Have a great weekend and for all you Dads out there:

Happy Father's Day!

and...Happy Birthday to my son Paul!!!

 

 

 

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Wild Flowers, Old Friends and New Friends! July 2, 2015

 

Tracy and David aka "Snickers"

 

We have learned since living here to

spot Pacific Crest hikers and sometimes

we will host them like we did last year.

We met these two hikers in downtown

while they were shopping for new

boots and provisions for the next leg

of their long journey!

You can follow them on their blog

Six Million Steps  

They came home with us and the next

morning after breakfast we drove them

to where they had left off!

 

 

 Wild flowers are beginning to show up!

We think they are from the seeds that Russell

planted a few years back!

 

 

We haven't identified them....yet.

 

 

Russell on the left and our crazy bicycling

friends who come and stay with us in between

cycling 100 to 200 miles in a day!

 

 

Last but certainly not least our

daughter's good friend Kami came

to visit us. We had a great visit

after a lot of years.

And that's it for now! Have a great day.

It's Six Words and Sunday Shadows! June 27-28, 2015

Wonderful hike with

 beautiful wild flowers

 

Yesterday a few of us ignored the HOT

weather and went on a 6 mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail near Mt Ashland.

Parts of the trail were shady and the sunny parts had wonderful views and oodles of wildflowers to enjoy along the way.

Here a few photos of our hike:

 

 

We first hiked through tall trees

on the shady trail... 

Orange Columbine

 

Once out in the open we were

surrounded by all sorts of

wild flowers!

 

Dramatic view with granite boulders

and Orange Columbine

Queen Anne Lace and Lupin 

 

 

More Lupine and an unknown yellow flower

 

 

 

Some of the old trees looked like creatures

 

Open meadow 

 

It was a glorious day and not really

too hot compared to when we got home!

It was about 102F in the city of Ashland

and "only" 96F at home.

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and Shadow Shot Sunday !

And have a great weekend!

Saturdays Six Words and Sunday Shadows May 3-4, 2014

Carefully living in a wildfire zone....

Because we live in a wild fire zone, we take

care to keep Manzanita and other highly

flammable shrubs cut back and far away

from our home. This means that we periodically

remove and either burn or chip the piles of brush.

Today we are renting a big chipper with a neighbor.

We'll chip up all our piles and then help 

our neighbor do the same on his property.

We will use all the chips for weed deterrent mulch.

Plus the chips will keep the dust down

in addition to keeping the ground moist. 

Clearing the Manzanita also enables

native wild flowers to appear! 

One of many piles of Manzanita waiting for the chipper!

May 2014

 Burnt Stump From Fire of 1929

Soft Arnica, May 2014

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Have a great weekend!