Finally summer

As far as I'm concerned this was really the first bike ride of summer! On June 14.  What a long extended spring we had, of cool and rainy weather.  The first day could have been the 13th I guess, but we were gone that day.  Since the 14th we have definitely been in a summer weather pattern.  In fact it has been so warm that we have switched to biking in the morning.
I planted zucchini seeds Saturday, and bean seeds today.  This is really, really late, we will see if anything comes of it.  Transplanted hollyhocks, yesterday, today, and maybe tomorrow.  This is reallly late too, I hope they can get established in spite of the hot weather.

It's raining!

Seems like we've been having more or less the same weather all year! It's actually pouring today.  I haven't managed to get the rest of my transplants in.  The Drosophila suzukii has made a mess of my cherries again, although we did get some good fruit off the Royal Anne.  I cut off the tops of all the cherries and stripped the fruit off them.  We cut down our old Stella.  It was in decline anyway, but still that brought a tear to my eye.  That had been such a wonderful tree and produced the best fruit until the suzukii came along.  Now it is starting to attach my strawberries, black berries and raspberries.  It has been such a cool and rainy spring I have bumper crops of them.

Here is a view from our bike ride yesterday.  It sprinkled the whole time.  Also a picture of the Oakland skyline.  Usually we are working on the other side of the bay, but got a chance to work in the east bay and see things from the other side.