Nature
The air is fresh and the water from our underground aquifer is raw and delicious.
Our weather is variable, featuring coastal influences mixed with ridgetop sun. We are generally dry from May until October and wet from October until May. Summer weather ranges from from hot 90 degree days to cool, foggy 50 degree days. Winter and Spring days might be 70 degrees and sunny or 40 degrees and stormy with the occasional freeze, hail, or light snow.
Year round and migrating birds visit the treetops. Always audible … sometimes visible.
There are ferns, huckleberry, and wildflowers in the Spring. You can smell the viridescence lining the path; sharp, pungent, sweet beneath the opening sky. A crop of matsutake mushrooms appears on an upturned log after heavy rain.
Sometimes the wind rustles through the tree leaves or howls through the forest.
And sometimes it is very,
very
still.
