First Fig

Look who grew a thing! After two or three years my fig tree has finally produced fruit.

We pulled a couple wrinkly black mission figs from the tree today. Awesome!

Blooming

There’s a torch on the porch

and it’s covered in spines.

Ten bees live inside

and they are divine.

It burns like the sun

with undying love.

Sending sweet scarlet nothings,

and somethings,

and all things,

for everyone!

It takes time,

Blooming.

Bird bath

Last night I saw a flash of light through my eyelids. What could it be? I got up and watched out the window. Thunder softly rolled. It sounded like hail as huge drops of rain started smacking the ground. Heat is returning to the valley. Temps are going to be in the 90s for the next month. At least it is still in the 60s at night.

Woodpecker has been in the saguaro all day. Two pair of quail shuffled through the yard this morning. We ran the sprinklers and a curve billed thrasher stopped by for a bath on the rocks where we are building a new border!

Thrasher sat atop the rock pile and rubbed itself on the wet rocks to work the water through it’s feathers. It popped onto the fence to preen then onto the ocotillo for additional preening.

It made my day.