New Year’s Day Portrait, 2021

Hiram and I, half-masked, New Year's Day, 2021
Pack-O

Paco Pega, vinyl top hat enthusiast, bad pun, drug war casualty.
Do acorn squash taste like acorns?

The cashier wanted to know if acorn squash taste like acorns and I said more like pumpkins. Later I thought who am I to say when I don’t know what acorns taste like?
April’s Poppyseed Pods

Here are April’s poppyseed pods and the spaghetti sauce jar they winter in.
Mister Phyllis

This is our plumeria, Mister Phyllis.
Itsty bitsy tiny and tasty heirloom tomatoes

The first tomatoes from our raised bed gardens.
Punked Pumpkin



These are some fallen pumpkin leaves from our raised bed gardens.
Princess

Princess. Named for royalty because she is.
Flying Monkey

Meaux, in a rare moment, under the influence of gravity.
Gertrude and Alice

Gertrude and Alice (Jeff and Meaux)
Okay smarty, go to a party


Some fun with what's left of this year's poppies
COVID-1984
Pandemic poetry written on masking tape and attached to the electrical poles along Mountain Avenue