Making rye bread with flour from a Montana mill (Montana Flour and Grains) that was recommended by a friend. I have never had such fluffy rye dough. This flour is like magic. Will post pic when it’s done.

Baking is my happy place. Double chocolate cookies to go in gift packages for far away family. The baking and freezing, then gifting and mailing… it’s a simple thing; comforting and relaxing in these dark times.

Kitty is home after 3 stressful days in the hospital. Another week of recovery and meds, and he should be back to normal.

Fascism is a pretty big failure right now (understatement), so maybe we need to snap out of this horrible bs and try actual Progressivism at last.

My kitty is still in the hospital, but I got to visit him and he’s feeling better. Maybe can come home after an xray this afternoon. Fingers crossed.

It makes me sad that people who are helpers, nurses, medical assistants, hospitality workers, delivery people, etc. are always so surprised when we are kind and grateful to them. Smile and say a kind word. Be nice. Be patient. Appreciate the helpers.

At the ER vet with my kitty boy this morning. It’s pretty dire. Please send good thoughts.

It has been lovely seeing all the flowers and birds and wildlife and pets, but now I have to go. Faretheewell.

#birdoftheday Black and white birds. Magpies on my lawn at dawn.

I read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as a young woman. The memory of it has re-entered my mind today. I can’t imagine why. 😳

Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Obama are loving life on the patio. They’re absolutely lush and shiny and gorgeous. 🌱🌱🌱

Sunrise through the smoke yesterday.

Enchanted Peace, 2nd flush of bloom. More pink than yellow this time. 🌱🌸 #roses

Loving the dahlias right now.

Old Hippie Here. Still very much a part of society. Raised two generations of progressive voters. Not even close to 90.

Garden today. 🌱🌿🌸

Someone sent me flowers today, for no reason and totally unexpectedly. It was the loveliest thing that has happened to me in a long time. There are kind people in the world.

Time for Republicans and the other Idiots, to evoke the 25th. This shit is no joke and not worth the power you think you have because a creepy orange man with dementia made promises. He'll start WW3 because you all are chickenshit and power hungry.

Clouds and thunder this morning. The gardens are reaching up to the sky with high hopes. Unfortunately, lightning and wind are all we can count on.

In the Tri Cities, WA yesterday. An “accident?” It caused an uproar. The parachute people apologized, sadly.

In this world of woe, a small joy: we ate the first ripe cantaloupe from our vines this morning. It was among the best things I have ever eaten. 🌱

Garden update - hot colors for a hot season. 🌱🌱💐💐🌿🌿

Pretty sad when one of your favorite aunts dies and you have to find out on Facebook.

Mason Rivera sculpture garden and arboretum. McMinnville OR.

My grandson and I made ice cream cake. That’s it. That’s what we’re doing tomorrow. Happy ice cream cake day.

I once had a frenemy who was the queen of the un-compliment. Upon viewing my gardens, she opined, “Everything you grow, I pull as weeds, but it works for you.” View my weeds…

First dahlia bloom.

It’s hot and smoky in the mid Columbia today, but I am harvesting the first tomatoes and cucumbers. So yummy, fresh from the garden. 🌱 🍅🥒

The magnificent monarda. It’s a new baby. Pretty splashy for a newbie. 🌱

The hosta leaves are bigger than my face (and I have a big face 😂). I hope the daylily will bloom and not be all leaf. 🌱

Mount Hood from the Simcoe Highlands in south central Washington. Ponderosa pine and northern red oak form the backbone of the landscape. There are still snowdrifts on the high ridges of the Simcoe.

Lavender grows like a weed here. Smells very lavender-y in the front garden.

Here is a palate cleanser after my political-adjacent post. A red geranium in a clay pot. She is named Mrs. Harris after my grade school principal, who always kept geraniums on her windowsill.

Flower border happenings/happiness today. Also, the cantaloupe now have their real leaves and cherry tomatoes are blooming. 🌱

Nomad days are over. Building new gardens for what remains of my future.