Under the Solano Sun

I love seeing butterflies. I always feel like it is a sign that our ecosystem is still thriving amidst all of the turmoil in the year 2020.

Household water-saving tips! Recently Governor Gavin Newsom declared: I have no patience for climate-change deniers. It's inconsistent with the reality on the ground, the facts. The evidence is in, there is too much Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere.

This time reminds me of when we lived at South Lake Tahoe several years ago. We had a house that had approximately 40 pine trees in the back part of the lot. We were told that we had to religiously rake up the fallen needles and remove the dead limbs from the trees.

It seems safe to say that 2020 did not turn out to be the year of perfect vision that I had joyfully anticipated. I started my garden in early spring with all the hope of this being my most productive year and it seemed like everything I had put the most energy into did the worst.

I don't think serendipity is actually the right word for this situation, but let's just go with serendipity, because right when I needed it, I found a lovely, historic, COVID-friendly stroll that assisted me in learning some botanical and common names of several trees.