Muku nei in the sign of Cancer the crab

These pictures from up mauka (in the high lands, where we live)

The sky was muted blue with 'real clouds' But the air is still filled with the ash of fires, old La'au the Tutu trees of Vancouver Island are burning. The climate is changed

Brackens are already turning

Blackberries are ripening

Peaches are growing

The tall grasses have browned, dried in place

Purple plums are beautiful, ripening though not ripe enough to pick and eat ... 

Robins don't wait to eat them.

My Two Sisters tiny garden (squash and beans) with volunteer mizuna and bok choy 

The champagne grapes are clustering nicely.

And then ma kai (to the water) and wetlands on the west side of Whidbey, West Beach facing the Straits of Juan de Fuca less than an hour drive from our place in Langley.

The wetlands across the road from our friends' beach home are already plump and beginning to 'fuzz'

It is nearly noon when I took this. A stretch of pohaku (stones) front our friends' home with a small gully of ocean water between a sandy low lying dune. Across the water and to the left is Vancouver Island where the Tutu burn