Thistle.
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#california #spring #wildflowers #thistle #bewarethethorns (at Point Reyes National Seashore)
May Day.
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#california #westmarin #spring #wildflowers (at Point Reyes National Seashore)
A long ago, secret admirer used to gift me bouquets of cleaned ramps in springtime.
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#allium #ramps #spring #seductionbyonion (at At Home in Napa)
The door to the porch
left ajar by the cat
invites intoxication
to flood the kitchen
stumbling
head spinning
indecent, immodest
thick of tongue
from too much
spring.
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A North African nosegay
wafts through a California garden
beguiling as a flowing hijab;
night blooming jasmine
Meyer lemon and Persian lilac
sweet and kaffir lime
spent daffodil, shivering plum
and
thousands of eye-watering
orange blossoms
popping from branches
still hung with winter fruit
now humming
vibrating
teeming
with bees.
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#california #garden #bee #spring
(at At Home in Napa)
Morning dew on spring buds.
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#california #spring #napavalley #garden
(at At Home in Napa)
Spring color in the Sierras.
#california #spring #sierras
(at Eldorado National Forest)
Fava bean purée whipped with spicy green garlic and Tuscan oil, a true labor of ❤️.
#vegetables #spring #food52 #fava (at At Home in Napa)
Peas.
#garden #spring #vegetables #peas (at At Home in Napa)
Pea shoots wilted in a wood oven with olive oil, green garlic and salt.
#california #spring #woodfired #vegetables (at At Home in Napa)
Visiting church on Sunday morning.
#california #spring #farmlife (at Volcano, California)
Turkeys the size of ranch dogs
traverse the wordless backroads
I’ve opted to travel,
past Gold Mine Realty
U-Stor-It Lockers
Giannini’s Italian Dinners
Tom’s Convenience Mart,
its shelves lined
in the parched
salty-sweet sands
of a food desert.
Hiking California’s northern peaks
in search of a single mushroom
from which to compose
dinner
proved futile
as alas
we jumped the gun
on its fruiting.
Wet still air and
rushing rushing waters
herald Spring’s imminent arrival;
the conifer, oak, aspen
their pollens not yet popped
to blanket a forest floor
now soaked with
melt
from gray banks of snow
laced with ravages of winter.
Flickers and stellar jays
mock-squawk
our lack of success
in extricating bounty
from their home
as drippy fog
dampens woolens
moods
and empty baskets.
A world-weary soul
journeys into the woods
to hunt
silence, renewal
Spring.
#california #spring #intothewoods (at Eldorado National Forest)
Winter’s melt.
#california #spring #intothewoods (at Eldorado National Forest)
Moss.
#california #spring #intothewoods #colorsofnature (at Eldorado National Forest)
The Sierras.
#california #spring #intothewoods (at Eldorado National Forest)
Under a waxing moon.
#california #farmlife #spring (at Volcano, California)
Is it wrong to pinch flowers from the garden of a rented pad?
#italy #piedmont #spring #lilac #couldnthelpmyself (at Bossolasco)
The Alps in the distance.
#italy #piedmont #langhe #spring #alps (at Bossolasco)
L'acqua.
#italy #piedmont #langhe #spring
Burning cuttings from spring pruning.
#italy #langhe #piedmont #spring #nature (at Bossolasco)
The infamously thick fog of northern Italy, la nebbia, also lends its name to native son and Noble Grape, Nebbiolo.
#italy #piedmont #langhe #spring #nature (at Bossolasco)