Play Rehearsal....

This afternoon, the day before the final production of Twelfth Night, the cast met at the library community room because the town's clubhouse was in use for a party of some kind. So here's the cast lined up listening to final directions....



Jack, a student I tutor, as Malvolio and E as Lady Olivia, on the back deck of our town's library.

I'll have photos from the play on several of my blogs tomorrow night....

Sunflowers

Last week B and I made a quick stop at Summers Past Farms in Flinn Springs (East San Diego County), and we thoroughly enjoyed the gorgeous gardens. I took many photos but haven't had time to edit many yet, but these were my favorites from the photo shoot. We have now planted our own sunflower seeds; we'll let you know how they do in the garden this summer.

The Field....

I drive past this field next to Interstate 8 every time we drive into or home from the city (three times a week for me; six times a week for Keith), and last week I finally took the offramp of the way home, parked on the little road off Highway 79, and took a few photos in the last afternoon shadows. This field is green for only a month or two out of the year; the rest of the time it's a dull brown and loses its interest. I caught it just before the last of the green tinge left; when I drove past yesterday, the grasses have finally surrendered to the browns of late spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The only other color we see here is white when the snow level drops to 3000 feet, but that's a rarity that occurs only once or twice a year, if that.

I love the wild mustard in the foreground; I used to pick bunches and bunches of it each spring on the way home from school to proudly present to my mom. She was a good mommy who immediately put them in a vase and centered them in the middle of the kitchen table for us all to "admire."

Apple Blossoms

The apple blossoms on our Pippin tree were the most beautiful we've seen in our seven years in the mountains.