If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold,it would be a merrier world. – J.R.R. Tolkien When I was a kid we always had a garden growing. When it came time to pick tomatoes, my Dad would go out to the garden with a salt shaker in his back pocket….

It’s 104 out today here in Colusa County California. Made me think of sweet sun tea and a quick barbecue lunch. I gotta get home there’s a garden to tend All the seeds from the fruit buried and began Their own family trees, teach them thank you and please As they spread their own roots…