The Red Clover is flowering and the hills all around us are slowly coloring a crimson red!
The contrasting greens of the grapevines and hillsides make the red even more brilliant.

Apparently Oregon is the source of world class clover seed. Who knew?
The bees sure appreciate it!

Most trees are fully leaved by now. Even some of the oaks on our property, who were extremely late, are now looking like they're almost 'done'.

                

I found some patches of California Poppies.
This picture was taken in the early morning when they hadn't opened fully yet. I might have to go back to catch them at a better time.

Every now and then I walk down to the river. I used to be able to follow a small trial made by the local wildlife but the grasses and weeds are getting almost too abundant, and tall, to do so right now.

One of the tallest weeds are these Giant Hogweeds:

                                

Although very pretty, with their large leaves and lacy flowers, the combination of sap on the skin and exposure to sunlight can produce painful, burning blisters within 48 hours!

I might have to give up on this particular walk until they disappear in late summer. 

Still more 'new' birds are arriving at my feeders!
These Black-headed Grosbeaks have been around for a few weeks now:

But their cousins, the Evening Grosbeaks, arrived only a few days ago!

 

Isn't he gorgeous?

In the meantime, James has almost finished the office!
The floor went in in record time due to the extra wide 'planks' ( LVP, Luxury Vinyl Flooring):

                     

And this morning he finished the roof!




Bret, our landlord, helped to lay the rubber. He's a roofer so he knows what he's doing!

Some of the 'flashing' went up as well. Again, with help of Bret, who cut and bend the metal with his professional tools/machines.
He had a lot to do himself so he didn't have time to make all of the pieces yet but the rest of them can be put on later.
So, we're almost there. A (fortunately shallow) ditch needs to be dug to lay a hard-line for Internet from the RV to the office and the wallpaper has to go up on the walls above the 'wainscoting', but after that we can start to move things over.
Yahoo!

Last, but not least, another food-picture! (lunch, to be precise but who wants to know?)
This is not so much about the food though but more to show off the nice red patio umbrella I bought!

It's a 9 footer and can tilt as well, and hopefully will allow us to have breakfast lunch and dinner in that spot right next to the patio where we have our sitting area.
Since our color-scheme (as if we have any) for the outdoors is mostly greens and blues I thought the red gives it a nice pop of color.
I bought a second one for the other side of the RV where we have the afternoon and evening sun.
So far I love the look. Let's hope they'll block (most of) the sun as well!

(Btw, having suffered a sticker-shock about the price of umbrella-bases in the stores, I was tickled-pink to score two of them on Marketplace for only $35 together!)