Green Gal

I've been so busy trying new things and experiencing life that I haven't posted here since early February! Today, I'll share about the garden and some other odds and ends from the past two months. It's been raining a lot here in California thanks to El Niño. Above is the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, full of water gushing toward the bay. This is a very welcome sight to us all in California, but we have to remember that one wet season does not solve a years-long drought on its own. The nasturtiums in my yard have been enjoying the rainy weather and have grown numerous beautiful yellow and orange flowers. In fact, the nasturtiums have somewhat taken over the garden! I got a bike trailer back in December, and I finally used it recently to go to the garden store. Now I can transport soil and heavy items up to 100 pounds without using a car! It's amazing how light items feel when they're in a bike trailer versus on the bike rack and especially when compar...

This morning I share with you an ode, a poem, a painting in sounds that I wrote on January 27th after biking home from a Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition San Jose Team meeting. "Tonight's City Symphony" On two wheeled journeys through this City's streets I hear a symphony of sounds, sounds muffled by car doors and windows, so that perhaps many do not know what they sound like, really. So I will tell you what I've heard, so you can listen, too. The murmur of freeways crossed under and over, they hum and buzz, white noise that doesn't go away but fades and grows as you move between neighborhoods. The creaking and rumbling of light rail trains, reminding you with a bell that they are on the move; watch out for their tire-eating tracks! The honking and revving of cars passing by--sometimes louder and closer than you want. Yikes! An airplane's thunder and light show in the sky; brake to a stop and experience it through your sky without a roof. The...