Under the Solano Sun

My family and I recently went for a walk through the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden. There are beautiful gardens and tree groves where you can reconnect with nature and see others also enjoying the space.

This year our Road trip took us north. We decided to see the national parks in Washington state, so here we are. 1st stop was Mt. St.Helens. I remember watching the 1980 eruption on TV and then again in 2004. The lava/magma flow continued until 2008.

When you mention sugar plums, the first thing that pops into most people's minds is Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker, or the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore and the line While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

They have returned from break they begin another year of growth Like fresh plantings...

After two years of markedly low winter rain totals, we again find ourselves praying that the coming winter brings us abundant amounts of water. Our hillsides attain that bleached wheat color in July instead of September.