Vicki's Bit-o-earth

We had a bit of fog in the morning, and I could hear the waves crashing from up the hill on my porch... so I had to investigate.

The local news said that we had rip tides due to wind vs. current directions. From what I understand... when the winds come from the Northwest and the tidal currents are coming into the bay from the southwest, the two elements push the waters from each of the two points of the bay toward each other ... causing the rip tides. They are dangerous, and everyone was warned to stay out of the water.

At certain times of the year the beach is full of little pockets of
shells, seaweed, and all kinds of interesting tidbits.

The sun came out late morning and so did all my visitors!

These two buddies of mine come to visit almost daily. They're my neighbor's dogs, but I borrow their love since I lost my 14 year old border collie a little over a year ago. Hana and Luigi (Weege for short)come over especially when I'm out in the garden... or when we have a BBQ. I don't know how they figure it out, but even before the fire it lit here they come!

I welcome them. They earn their keep!

Hana locates a gopher hole and alerts Weege of the little critter underground. Weege dives into the work! Before long he has a nice fat gopher in his teeth. Though I really can't stand to watch it... I have to admit, its better than putting out traps! We have a lovely gopher population, since the amount of "stuff" they put on the strawberry fields across the road drives them to my organic garden.

A few strawberries from the patch today,
and I'm sure you can guess what we had for dessert this evening!
Thanks to Corey for the great new recipe!!!

The finches are back!
I look forward to the little lovlies arrival each spring.
Their bright color is so striking, and they are the sauciest little imps!

Hey, can't you kids get along!?

Nope! Guess not!
You'd think they were tiny chickens,
the way they peck at eachother!

~A Merry Spring to all~