Tags Archives: changing seasons

Reaping and sowing

We’re, of course because we’re in California, still reaping the vegetable and fruit harvest of the season, as we ready to plant for the fall/winter/spring harvests.  We have tens of pounds of tomatoes still to pick, pasilla and serrano chiles, bountiful bell peppers, copious cucumbers and squash.  We also still have fruitful figs on the [...]

Changing seasons

The passage of seasons becomes noticeable in August—always. As the days shorten to fall, I see a different quality, a softness, to the light, and perceive the harbingers of the new season.  I found a dry sycamore leaf in the garage last week, an early indicator of the changes that occur each passing minute to [...]