Rain just won't come. How strange to look out the window and see dry grass, wilting garden. It's uncommon here, to say the least, to see no rain for as long as we have. But without thinking of the rainless forecast for days to come, it's been a lovely month of more sunshine than I can ever remember on the West Coast. The crops that we grew as experiment, ones which normally would never flourish here, have been filling our shirt tails and baskets: watermelon, cucumbers, tobacco, peppers and more tomatoes than we've ever seen. The brassicas and blackberries struggle. A strange season for sure. We've been living off the garden more than we anticipated for our first year here, and enjoying the bounty of the farmers market, especially the goat cheese and winter squash now coming in.