June 2025 Favorite Photos

Passion flower

June 2025 was full of ups and downs, and lots of beautiful flowers! Our garden is producing a good amount of tomatoes, beans, tomatillos, figs, peppers, herbs and roses. Unfortunately, rats have eaten most of the tomatoes and a lot of beans.😠 We’ve set up humane traps and are catching them left and right, we rehome them in the canyon and wish them good luck!

Not perfect, just gorgeous!
My first Stapelia bloom!!
Busy bee! 🐝
Which way to go?
Disco Spider!
Purple Tomatillo
Carminat pole bean flower
A very busy Swallowtail
My second sourdough bread!
Big Red Dragonfly
Book art, created by my Aunt

I’m very sad to report that my friend, and friend to the whole neighborhood, Peanut the sweetest squirrel, was killed by a speeding car in front of our house yesterday. I’m devastated.

RIP Peanut 😢🥜

And just before I hit publish, I saw the headline. Instead of celebrating America this July, I can only cry for democracy. There are no words, just a sickness in the pit of my being. 😔

43 replies to “June 2025 Favorite Photos”

  5. My emotions are decidedly mixed after reading this post, Tiffany. Your photos are beautiful, as always, and your sourdough loaf looks quite impressive. But I’m terribly sad about Peanut (goddamned speedy drivers!), as well as the atrocious budget pill just passed by our corrupt GOP-controlled Senate (which I’m assuming is the last-minute headline you referenced).

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      1. It’s great fun isn’t it! You do a fabulous job! I saw a gorgeous rainbow a little bit ago while driving, but it was gone by the time I had a chance to pull over. Thrilled to see it! 🌈😍

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  10. RIP Peanut.

    When I first read this I read, “We’ve set up human traps…and are releasing them in the canyon.” I liked that. Being released in a canyon is a good thing. Your plants and photos are beautiful.

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    1. Thank you so much! I don’t have anywhere close to the varieties you have, but I do have some cool ones! The big white ones (I call egg flowers) are actually Matilija poppies, they are all over our neighborhood! I only got the one star flower so far, but those are really cool plants!😊

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    1. Thank you so much, Linda! Yeah, I really want to try the book page folding thing, she made a few of them, all different patterns, a great way to repurpose old books! I’ve lost count of how many rats/mice, we caught 8 mice just yesterday! 😬

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