Up close picture of three Royal Anne cherries hanging together, mostly orange and red though with a little yellow still, skin taut and shiny like waxed, amid long green spears of leaves against a blue sky.

Climbed the tree to get some cherries for tomorrow and picked a handful of fruit plus a wasp. Luckily, they are docile critters, probably just happy about eating cherries like I am, so I got nothing more than a buzzy talking to. #cherries #OregonFarmThing #oregon #yardfood

Picture of a very low and sluggish creek, dirt from the creek bed largely exposed, more dirt settled on the rocks still submerged. IN the distance are shrubs and trees growing out of the creek and the sun sits low and bright, seeming to put a spotlight on one part of the water. Maybe that's where the body is buried.

Picture of a low creek in a shady spot where it first riffles over small rocks, and then swirls into a deeper, algae rich pool, then seems to flow backward as it hits a spot where the big rocks do not protect it from the wind blowing it the wrong way. All around are bright green trees and shrubs and the golden hills in the distance.

Picture of my dog Aggie the kelpie, walking through the shallow creek, quite receded from its banks, brown but clear. Behind her the rock bed of the bank, and then dirt bed and then the grass and a dirt road leading up to the main road.

The creek will be gone in a couple days. Every year we say goodbye and it always hurts like hell. #oregon #oregonfarmthing #RockCreek

Turquoise colored colander about half full of small strawberries sitting on some bricks and rocks.

tight shot of a Maslin pan loaded with thick bright red blitzed up strawberry jam.

Been picking berries, and made my first batch of fresh strawberry jam of the year. So begins the long season of working a food mill and building up one giant arm. #strawberries #Oregon #OregonFarmThing #Jam #YardFood

Photo taken in the middle of a low creek, fore of the picture is of largish rocks covered in a chartreuse moss slippery growth by center picture it opens to a pretty green poll surrounded by rocks and trees and shrubbery, in the distance the dry desert hills.

On my walk yesterday. Went looking for dead things, as we've had vultures and ravens and magpies wheeling around. Did see a young coyote, did not find the dead thing. The creek's almost gone, but this little bit was beautiful. #creek #SeenOnMyWalk #OregonFarmThing

Landscape photo of a shallow creek running through a dry canyon of brown grasses and sage. A few small trees grow on the bank to the left. Many rocks are visible above the water's surface, covered in a chartreuse algae that was just days ago under water.

landscape photo of a creek going dry. On the left is a shrub, and on the right are some trees on the bank, and in the distance is a canyon wall and the sun creating a star like glow both in the sky and in what remains of the water in the center of the picture. Most of the creek bed is exposed, only a small channel remains.

The exposed mud and rocks of a drying up creek bear the footprints of different creatures who have passed through.

Because of excessive and wasteful irrigation upstream, this is all that's left of the creek and only the beginning of May. I love the creek, but animals out here need it. This time of year, watching it dwindle like this is hard. #OregonFarmThing #WaterIsLife

landscape photo looking up a wheat field that crests in a hill. In the center and to the right are the wheat furrows, new green, a big patchy, six or seven inches tall, and to the left is a ravine and grass covered hill. The sky is cloudy blue.

Half this landscape is blue sky with clouds, and half is green wheat at the top of the canyon, or what we call on top. To the right is a gravel road that disappears into the wheat.

Photo of the wheat road looking SE. It's a dirt road with light gravel on it, one long puddle from a recent rain, the dirt pale because this is not great dirt. On either side of the road is the new wheat growing green, the sky dominates the upper part of this photo.

Run through the wheat fields. Very little peace in my life, but this, the sky and distant mountains, the ankle turning furrows and ancient gravel, the deer and stinkbugs, it's a single deep breath. If i could, I would just keep running and never stop. #trailrunning #Oregon #OregonFarmThing

Great big tan hills, just greening up with what little growth we get in spring, loom in the background, blue sky above them, in the foreground, sage brush and native grasses bend in the westerly wind direction. The focus on the photo is an orange storage container with a white block painted across its middle, and the word Oregon painted on that in dark blue. Another shipping container sits behind it, an old aluminum barn and corral behind that

#Oregon #OregonFarmThing

The hazy nearly full moon rises over sage covered hills, lighting up the creek that winds its way between them. The picture is browns and blues, calm and spare.

Photo of the silhouette of some trees still bare of leaves but the one in the foreground is filling out with plump blossoms, cutting a jagged dark line across the bottom third of the photo is the outline of the distant hills, and above that, behind the trees, is the sky going from blue at the top to orange at the horizon.

A white pear blossom stares at the camera, lit up by the overhead security light. Shadows line the leaves and background blossoms, and in the upper left corner is one bike tire on a pink bike.

Worked late in the yard this evening and was rewarded by things you only see at night like a moonlit creek and security light bright pear blossoms. #garden #oregon #OregonFarmThing #moonlight #sunset

This is the story of running. Same shoe, one new, one after a year on the trails. I'd still be wearing that one on the right if my foot didn't keep slipping out the side of it. Running shoes are like loved ones; I buried this dead guy and his mate yesterday in the yard. RIP #running #OregonFarmThing

A photograph of a Pickwick crocus taken from above. The ground dark brown with rain, lightened by the scattered coconut mulch, and a few spear like leaves, white striped down their centers, radiate out from under the open cup of six white petals. Each petal has been lightly brushed in the middle with pale purple strokes, and rising from the center are the golden sex parts of the flower, stamen and pistil and all that.

A photo with a blurred background of trees and evergreen shrubs, shows front and center a branch bare of leaves but covered with delicate white blossoms rioting for space along the length of wood. Some are fully open, their centers like silly little legs kicking out, their anthers like little golden shoes. Some are only just opening, and look more like a chalice filled with gold coins, and others are still tight in bud, their wine red guard petals still holding them close. The sky is pale blue.

Photograph of tiny croci all bunched together. They are a ridiculous shade of purple, so bright, and they fade to the center where they meet to almost white. Also in each center is a tight little cluster of pollinating parts, and the foremost flower also has a tiny black bug in it.

Photograph of an exquisite variety of crocus, very thin leaves, and the three inner petals are a saturated lavender orchid color with a little deeper striping in the middle of each petal. They surround a frilled stamen/pistil complex, deep egg yolk yellow and ruffled. The Three outer petals are the same purple color as the inner ones, but only on the inside face. On the outside face of these outer petals, they are white, with striking deep purpley burgundy paint marks.

I got back from a long run yesterday, and the apricot was in bloom, just like that, and several other varieties of crocus as well. I think every time I see another spring get sprung I am the luckiest person on the planet. #Oregon #garden #spring #flowers #OregonFarmThing

Image of a finger lime citrus plant, spotted with scale prevention and covered with old cobwebs, one open white blossom hangs its heavy head. Beside it looms a giant hand holding a brush dusted with pollen. A skeleton is in the background. As it should be.

I began pollinating the citrus trees today. I've not done this before. What an exciting life. #oregonfarmthing

Enormous tan brown tumbleweed sits upside down on the new spring grass and old golden dry winter grass, held in place by sage brush. Above and behind it is a rocky dry grassy hill and above that blue sky and power lines.

Trying to show for scale how big this tumbleweed is, I have stuck my foot (in a green sneaker) near it, but also I have gotten my fleece vest in the way so this photo looks a bit like a foot on a very short leg is coming from a large tennis ball and onto large brown ball. Grass and sage are in the background.

Photo trying to show scale of this massive tumbleweed though it is difficult because it's so big it doesn't fit in the frame and I can't really get close enough to it, but I did try to get my hand in there. Hand in olive sleeve sits atop a big ass russian thistle, all brown and prickly.

Just wanted everyone to see this enormous tumbeweed. It's been blocking my path a while now and it occurred to me I could move it rather than run around it, and only then did I realize it was the size of a mobile home. One time I was running in high wind 1/2 #oregon #oregonfarmthing #trailrunning

Big white hand holds agates and opals of various shapes and color. Two white feet are inexplicably in the shot, also some grass in the background

Picture of gravel road through an emerging wheat field. A couple knees in running tights, a lace of a shoe, and a rugged arm with a Coros on it are visible, clearly someone exhausted sitting on the road and wish they were home eating ramen.

Photo of a wide creek, brown with silt from high waters. The water is brown, the grass is golden brown, the trees are leafless and brown, the hills in the distance are brown, but the sky is a beautiful blue.

Picture of someone standing in the creek. Visible are their thighs in running tights (black) just above the knee, the knees, and then the legs disappear in the roiling water. Bright orange running shoes are visible barely in through the water. A shadow of the person is cast on the brown water in front of them.

Did not much enjoy my long run yesterday, had to tell myself to keep going with nearly every step, but it was sunny and warm and I found some nice rocks and the creek was crossable (just barely). #oregon #trailrunning #rocks #OregonFarmThing