Superfoods

 Here is a guide to superfoods.  They offer ways to boost nutrients with little or no caloric gain.

Monday Update 6-29-20

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Today's Smoothie (banana mango goji berry)
Birdfeeding
Poem: "A Feeling of Being at Home"
Holiday: Tiny Box Tim Day
Community Building Tip: Parking Lot Diary
Birdfeeding
Birdfeeding
Birdfeeding
Poem: "The Wings of Transformation"
Self-Awareness Question: Best Advice
Today's Smoothie (banana strawberry goji berry)
Poem: "Scraps"
Birdfeeding
Poem: "True Security to Be Found"
Good News


Poetry in Microfunding:

There are two open epics at present.

"Protect the Forests" belongs to Polychrome Heroics: Iron Horses and has 4 new verses. The Iron Horses talk about hunting and gathering.

"Pride Against Prejudice" belongs to Polychrome Heroics. The autograph tables are impressive.


The weather has been warm and humid, with a few spates of rain.  Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a flock of mourning doves, a flock of sparrows, a flock of house finches, several cardinals, a gray catbird, and a squirrel.   Currently blooming: comfrey, pinks, violas, butterfly weed, alyssum, petunia, Asiatic lilies, daylilies, Queen Anne's lace, Shasta daisies, red bergamot.  Snapdragons have buds.  Mulberries have pink fruit. Raspberries have pink fruit. Blackberries have green fruit. I haven't seen any fruit ripening -- the birds may be eating it all this year. :/

Birdfeeding

Today is hot and steamy.  Ugh.

I fed the birds.

The first snapdragon is blooming in the barrel garden, dark red.

EDIT 6/29/20 -- I started trimming weeds around the barrel garden.

EDIT 6/29/20 -- I trimmed more weeds around the barrel garden.

EDIT 6/29/20 -- I finished trimming around the barrel garden.

EDIT 6/29/20 -- I went out after dark to watch fireflies.  They're mostly over the fields tonight, although I saw plenty in the yard at dusk.  There are thunderheads all around us, at least half a dozen.  The lightning is all pink.

Today's Smoothie

Today we made a smoothie with:

3/4 cup Ceres guava juice 
1/2 cup Brown Cow vanilla yogurt
3/4 cup almond milk
1 banana
1/2 cup Great Value tropical fruit blend (pineapple, strawberries, mango, peach)
1 1/2 teaspoons acai berry powder
1/2 cup ice

The color is an odd lavender and the flavor vaguely tropical.  It's okay, but not spectacular.