Life on the Ranch

Crepe myrtle and another native variety.

I've planted 122 fruit trees - mulberries, figs, plums, pomegranate - on the land in the last 9 years. It is wonderful to watch the trees grow. I talk to them, of course. I hold one of their leaves and say, "You're doing great." The Texas heat is quite strong for five or six months, every year, and the trees may feel as if they're struggling, sometimes. <3

Texas bluebonnets are purple, and that's okay.

Today.

Growing watermelons 🍉 🍉 🍉 this year, Moon and Stars variety. 🌟 They will get up to 40 pounds.

I have 8 acres on an old cattle ranch in Texas.

Young plum tree, white mulberry tree, native grass, and ancient oaks. Bluebonnets (purple) and ancient oak trees.

Young white mulberry, native grass, and oak trees.

Pakistan mulberry, white mulberry, sunflowers, imported New Zealand white clover, wild native grass, and oak trees.

Eight years ago, I planted 500 sunflower seeds, and now new sunflowers come up on their own every year.