My Garden Under The Oaks

This is the view from my bedroom windowYes, we have our own oak grove. It is lovely, but it makes gardening a challenge.
I have dinky side yard that actually gets sun in the summer months

We have on raised bed full of zucchini and containers with tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers

This is the first year I have been able to garden at all here. Previously I had been in Lemoore too often to plant anything

Peppers in containers on our gravel walkway. If it gets sun, I'm planting there!

My tomatoes are 6 feet tall. They seem to be reaching for the sun they wish they had. I got the troughs in Lemoore

This bell was a present to my grandfather when he retired It came from the last steam engine on the Northwestern Pacific. Ben Burtt has recorded it ringing and the sound has been in several movies.

A bountiful harvest!

Yes, Annie these are the picking buckets from your wedding. Lots of Zinnias for your mama.

Gramma pretending to water. I don't let anybody touch my plants.

Yummy, zucchini fritters. We are on a zucchini marathon. 1001 ways to eats zuchs.

Dinner with DeNiro. No, dinner with great friend Bob. He's our own little Jack Kerouac. He's a writer and has a literary journal. He drives a cab and is full of great stories. Franky was in Cambria, he'll be home for leftovers