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Not much transition from warm and dry to the wet season.  The fields have greened up in just a couple of weeks.  I saved vacation days from last month and am hoping I can find a week where it isn't raining so I can garden! We had some beautiful storm fronts come in!  My favorite kind of weather! They came in wearing switched costumes and thought they were hilarious. We have been studying the California Gold Rush this week so we took a field trip up to Camp Dakota to pan for gold. I think we would have lost Sawyer to the Gold Rush. However, we would not have lost this one.. Phil worked late 4 days this week but he came and got the kids for 3 of them so I was able to work on a felt piece.

Rain, rain, rain!  The clover dies back in the summer heat and we had a few days of drizzle and I noticed little white spikes all over the yard.  Today, they had leafed out and there were tiny little clovers spreading like a green mist over the dirt patches and dry grass. Often times in the morning, the early light is silver, particularly in the Winter.  We had a few beautiful golden mornings this week.   The making of golden mist. There is something about this little valley where the storms funnel through and we get amazing rainbows.  The outdoor lighting is up.  This is dusk, after the sun had gone down and the last of the light was fading.  It is going to be so amazing when the garden fills in and we clean up all the junk (like the illuminated wheelbarrow and shovel handle LOL). I saw the droplets on this leaf outside my bedroom window so I grabbed my camera, put on my muck boots, and took a few macro pictures before the sun even came up. Poor ...