flowers, April 2019

 icelandic poppy

 coastal CA poppies

chamomile, coastal CA poppies, black mustard, pineapple guava shrub (flowers on this are pretty and tasty)

the red shouldered hawk

had my good camera with me on Sunday

favas

Spent a couple hours this weekend shelling favas. I eat most of them fresh or frozen, but do dry some. I mostly grow a tan variety, some purple. In one of the purple pods there were a couple that had crossed, so Appaloosa coloration. Sweet!

bee / cactus

Garden member Laurie took these sweet pics

Nikon D600, Nikkor 105mm MF

garden, May 3rd, mostly Kristen's plot

 it's a lizard

 I wanted this image bad but AF was not happy, gotta come back with a tripod and a MF macro lens

 tulip tree, pretty flowers. I like that this one violates the rules of photography - your eyes bounce back and forth between the left and right side of the image

bird eatin' loquats

new lens

Got a 18-300 6.3 Nikon lens, fantastic little guy. My uncle uses it all the time. Gonna try to take more pics in the garden now.

 coastal CA poppy, epazote

 poppy, garlic, arugula

 fuyu persimmon

arugula, poppy, non-native grass

Spring photos

This Spring I'm trying for a picture of the resident Garden Hawk with my fun camera. I caught it one afternoon with my phone camera but it's eluded me when I plan to look. Until then, here are some other garden friends in decent definition:

That hawk:

 Bonus heron by Mesa Road: