Autumn begins at 7:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time tonight. Your calendars will say it starts tomorrow but there is an exact time when the Earth passes the halfway point between aphelion (farthest from the sun in summer) and perihelion (closest to the sun in winter). That happens tonight. Seasons are not due to our distance from the sun but rather how direct the rays of the sun are shining down on us. At the equinoxes we are traveling fastest and so daylight changes the fastest. At the solstices the earth moves the slowest in it's revolution around the sun.
I had a diary I was working on. It went poof. I now have 15 minutes to create a new one. Ack!. We are having smoke up the ying yang around here. As you know we are in the midst of a terrible drought in California. Wildfires are every where. The closest one to us has burned over 128 square miles (over 82,000 acres) and is growing. It's only 17% contained and is in rugged land. The air is now officially "hazardous" to breathe here. The sun is blotted out from the smoke so it's an eerie orange-red thing in the sky. It smells strongly of smoke...mostly cedar and pine. Such is life in the summer in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains in California.
Well, I have 12 minutes left, so I'm just going to post pics of the few remaining things growing that will be harvested soon.
Pomegranate
Eisley Peppers
Yellow Cherry Tomatoes
Blue Hawai'an
Tahoe
A Medusa Bud
A Chaze Bud
I have five minutes left. Times up...gotta publish. What do you want to kibitz about?
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share part of the evening around a virtual kitchen table with kossacks who are caring and supportive of one another. So bring your stories, jokes, photos, funny pics, music, and interesting videos, as well as links—including quotations—to diaries, news stories, and books that you think this community would appreciate. Readers may notice that most who post diaries and comments in this series already know one another to some degree, but newcomers should not feel excluded. We welcome guests at our kitchen table, and hope to make some new friends as well.
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