Yesterday was an easy erev for me–no challah, and Avdi had dinner in the slow cooker.  I did bake some Passover “cakes”, or are they?  Mmm, particle board.

I cleaned up, but mostly I immersed myself in all the fascinating plant life coming up in the rain mist preceding the weekend deluge.  I keep finding more ephemerals emerging.  My kind of habitat.  I should have been a salamander.  The neighbor gave me a bundle of strawberry plants, which I immediately added to the “patch”.

Then I got a great idea.  I offered elderberry saplings to anyone in the swap group that wants to come over and dig them after the wet weekend.  I had cut them all down last fall, for Avdi’s sake, but of course they all returned with a vengeance.  This way, others can get the benefit of natives, and I can liberate the space for more veggies!

Now it’s the middle of the night at my apt during a big t-storm, so of course I’m wide awake.  It’s like a lake outside.  The photos are mostly about life in all its varied textures and shades of green and delicate flower drifts.  The last picture represents what’s left of the aquarium (sad story)—or is it charoset (private joke)?