A Sunny View from Mount Veeder, for a Rainy Day

I think I must have jinxed the weather by saying in my previous post that the winter rains had subsided. It rained steadily over the past two days, turning the fields to mud and suspending my almost-complete rock removal project.

The upside of all that rain: we won't have to irrigate in order to get the weed seeds to sprout in the fields. Once the weeds get growing, we will turn them under. Doing this will mean that fewer weeds will sprout later on, after we've planted.

For now, I'll leave you with a photo I took of the Napa Valley last week, looking east from the farm.