Our trip to Camp Mather was for the Strawberry Music Festival, a twice-annual, family-oriented bluegrass festival in a public campground (strangely enough, owned by the City of San Francisco) 1 mile outside of Yosemite National Park. The weather was remarkable - 80+ degree days, 40 degree nights, so "layering" was critical for comfort. This was also the first time I'd been completely out of cell phone service for 3 days in longer than I can remember. It was nice to really unplug.
Now that we're back, we have some work to do in the garden: the nasturtiums are going to be removed from the raised bed because they're squeezing out our cucumber plant. They also seem to grow just fine no matter what we do to them so they probably don't need the coddling that some of the other plants desire.
Aggressive nasturtium, crowding out the cucumber
Our radishes have grown to full size and we're enjoying them with our abundance of arugula in salads. We believe some of the beets may be getting close as well but we're a little afraid to pull one just yet.
One full-sized radish, and one tiny carrot
Loads of arugula
Our lemon tree has reached the end of the season, and it seems like it would have potential to grow much larger if we put it in the ground. However, we've been looking at real estate lately and don't want to leave it behind if we move... so it may need to stick it out in a pot for another season.
We've had a great time traveling for the past few weeks, and we'll be back on the road for much of June and July. For now though, we're looking forward to having a few weeks here at home since we haven't seen much of our neighborhood in a while. We still need to check out Contigo, the hot new restaurant a few blocks away, and we have only 6 days to complete the Noe Valley Quest!
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