I didn’t get this ’til late yesterday, which means I missed the big winds. Today we had light and intermittent breezes, but I was able to get it aloft for 15 - 20 minutes of meditative time.

I missed shots of a hawk and an egret in flight. There was a kettle at one point as well. It's just too hard to focus on a bird in flight when you don't have a viewfinder to look in. The birds didn't seem bothered by the kite, flying pretty nearby.

One nice thing about flying a kite, besides the meditative aspect, is that looking up encourages a posture that's the opposite of the hunched posture many of us have at the keyboard.

Some volunteer grapes growing near a USDA site, in bloom.

Juglans regia (English/Persian walnut) has set fruit.

Juglans regia orchards are ones I'd use to teach people about grafting because the difference in bark between the rootstock and scion are so obvious. But when there's a rootsucker, you can see the differences in leaves as well.

Last season's walnut hulls and fruit husks, mulched.