Yesterday at Avdi’s I replanted a couple of veg rows that weren’t producing, with more lettuces.  I transplanted some native flower seedlings to various beds.  I started some others downstairs.  I cleaned up the large shade natives area to “liberate” ferns and ephemerals that were getting crowded out by aggressive natives.  I discovered the corn and beans just starting to emerge, and lots more natives/etc beginning to flower.

I also did countless laundry loads of towels.  They do go through the towels over there!  E made a wonderful dinner of steak and eggs and zucchini with peppers, which Avdi, S, and I ate out on the patio, while watching Y and friend climb the tree, which we think is some kind of atypical native oak, like shingle oak, but strangely without acorns ever.

On my walk home, just as I passed the school, a little girl motioned me to quietly approach the big old tree, where there was a nest full of newborn baby birds right in the hole in the bark, apparently without their mother.  They were tiny, consisting of just big yellow mouths!  It was a magical moment.  I advised her to wait and come back tomorrow to see if the mother had returned.