My spooky October tree! 🌱 👻

Cowboy lounging on a Sunday evening. 🐱 #catpic #catsofbluesky

Making up for missing Caturday... "Cappy-day" 🐱 #catpic #catsofbluesky

Weird... an albino Sugar Snap Pea seedling popped up in my bed of fully green seedlings. 🤔🫛 Will it grow to produce yellow- podded peas? 🌱

Just a flying Cowboy in the garden on a Friday afternoon. 🌱 🐱 #catpic #catsofbluesky

Late afternoon sun on some Borage. 🌱

Afternoon kitten family siesta time. ( Cappy, Oliver, Harly, and Twister). #catsofbluesky #catpic 🐱

Spying on Cowboy through the blinds as he lounges on my Lemon Balm out in the garden. 🌱 #catpic #catsofbluesky 🐱

Cloudy Saturday morning in the garden. Leafy greens (5 lettuce varieties, curly endive and 2 radicchio varieties) are doing great! Now if the dang pillbugs would stop munching my Bok choy and Spinach ... we'd be rocking the Fall garden! 🌱

Sleepy Buddy... #caturday #catpic #catsofbluesky 🐱

Meet Cappy! #caturday #catsofbluesky #catpic 🐱

There are serious entitlement issues in this house starting with YOU 👆. Mr. Cowboy!... 'Whatever, Mom' 🙄 ' #catpic #catsofbluesky 🐱

'Mom, it is a beautiful day in the herb garden.' ... Glad you are enjoying yourself Cowboy! 🐱 #catpic #catsofbluesky

Buddy is not appeciating the photo session. #catpics #catsofbluesky 🐱

Today’s fun and unusual item from the garden are these Red Roselle Hibiscus flower calyx (the part just below the flower). Dried and used to make tea or an agua fresca beverage. Many will know this as the main component in Red Zinger tea or the drink called Jamaica in Mexican cuisine.

Hmmm...🤔

Dusk-time hang in the garden with my Cowboy. Little does he know that his current spot is slated to get my Broccoli seedlings tomorrow morning. "Enjoy it while you can, little man." 🌱 #catpic #catsofbluesky 🐱

My once-per-year Plum Torte using the elusive Prune Plums that are only available for a short time each September. From the famous New York Times recipe ( look it up).

Wistfully remembering the year I got to grow these for a client on their 35 acre property. Wish I had that much space to grow now! 🌱 🎃

1. Sitting in my veg garden in the late afternoon with my cats 2. Any and all James Taylor music 3. The color Lime Green 4. First sip of coffee in the morning 5. Hearing my husband's truck pull into the driveway after work

Photographed Dec 17, 2012 in Malibu, CA. Don't know the species. #Fungi

The last of the Summer tomatoes (Sungold and Blush) and Peppers (Sweet Jalapeño and Jimmy Nardello). Clearing space for my Fall/Winter tomatoes. SoCal Zone 10b... 1 mile from the coast. We get frost maybe every 10 years or so and our nights rarely dip below 50's F. 🌱

Is my garden perfect? No. Do I plant and harvest at the exact correct times? Also No. But it IS a bountiful sanctuary for me and my cats to escape and find peace and THAT is what makes it PERFECT for us! ❤️🌱

This is Abby. She was an abandoned feral kitten in our yard. My coworker adopted her and now- a year later- Abby is living the POSH life! #catsofbluesky #catpic 🐱

'Mom... come LOOK!!! I made a new friend and he is a LIZARD!!! ... and he is right here in the corner behind this pot!' ... That's great, Cowboy. Don't let him bite your nose. #catsofbluesky #catpic😸

Sunday Snoozers! 🐱 #catpic #catsofbluesky

'Mom, I was a good boy today... I think I deserve a toy from the jar!' - Ok, Buddy. 🐱 #catpic #catsofbluesky

Seeded these 3 weeks ago and Wow! Time to get them out in the garden. And YES... those are 🍅! Varieties bred for cool climates can be grown in Fall in my almost coastal zone 10 garden in So Cal. ( Varieties like Siberia, Sub Arctic Plenty, Oregon Spring). 🌱

Caturday brotherly love... Buddy & Cowboy. 😸 #catpic #catsofbluesky.

Pepper knows she is the Caturday Queen. #catsofbluesky #catpic 🐱

The tomatoes are ripening fast and furious now! 🍅🍅🍅 🌱

Reminds me of the rear view of a pup I once lived with when she was trying to sneak up on the furniture! 😂

This Blue Scaevola is such a great flowering groundcover! Spreads quickly and blooms most of the year in my Zone 10, SoCal garden! 🌱

This Amaranth was a volunteer seedling. Giving it a stake let it develop a sturdy trunk and tons of side shoots. Although an annual- right now it is a lovely 7' flowering tree showing off as the star of my front yard landscape! 🌱

A perfect head of 'Benefine' Endive. 💚 🌱

Whatcha doin' Buddy? "Oh mom, I'm just hanging out in the seed tray here in the office catching a quick snooze on a Monday morning." 🐱 #catpic #catsofbluesky ❤️

A brother doesn't mind if his sister's tail wraps around his head! #catsofbluesky #catpic 🐱 #siblings

HOLY SH*T this new ad doesn’t pull any punches. And I’m here for it. Because if you’re protecting pedophiles, you’ve got it coming. Share. This. Everywhere. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

"Go away mom- I'm taking a nap!" - Ok, Cowboy. Sweet dreams! 🐱 #catpic #catsofbluesky

PJ drawer supervisor Buddy says, "Sorry mom, this box is full." #catpic #catsofbluesky 🐱

Pretty Borlotto (aka: Cranberry) beans. Tasty too! 🫘❤️ 🌱

No harvest is too small to add some freshness and zingy flavors to dinner. 🌱

Planted Saturday and already up and growing! #Fallgarden 🌱

Although I grew my seedlings in the greenhouse at the correct time last fall- some health issues kept me from planting them out until late Spring ( SoCal zone 10). So, they didn't reach full size. Still grateful for the harvest and will happily add them to our meals! 🧅❤️ 🌱

What the !#*? Was just at my neighborhood little CVS shopping center. Was getting back in my car after picking up a prescription and a loudspeaker blares out, "Attention! You are being filmed for your protection!" I look around to see a weird motorized rig with a camera at the top! #nazifascists

'Just relaxing here by the wall, Mom.' Ok, Cowboy. #catpic #catsofbluesky 🐱

Pepperama! 🌶️🫑🌶️🫑🌶️🌶️🌱

Veg art. Grateful for my garden. 🌱

'No mom, I will not move my leg just so you can sit down in your desk chair!' - Ok Buddy. 🤦‍♀️ #catpic #catsofbluesky 🐱

It may be odd how much I adore watermelon radishes. (with a sprinkle of flaky salt always)