...Couldn’t find a recent photo to post today, but found this image, taken in our garden exactly a year ago today. Not sure of the variety, but this poppy sure was pretty....
...I planted our parkway with a California native wildflower mix from Theodore Payne last year. This flower was the most successful and reseeded itself. But I lost the seed package and don’t know its name. Identify it and you win bragging rights . . . Update: Dree wins bragging rights! It’s Elegant clarkia (Clarkia unguiculata)....
...There should be a rule that if you have a cool old package design you should have to keep it. Thank you Cactus Candy Company for not hiring a new graphic designer....
...The interior of a traditional Chumash dwelling called an ‘ap as recreated at the La Purisima Mission State Historic Park near Lompoc, California. If only a fraction of modern dwellings were this elegant . . ....