A Place in the Country

In the hot stillness of a September morning, in the hills not far from the thriving community of Walnut Creek in California, a man in a red shirt and straw hat tends his vegetable garden. Oh, you can't see him? Click on the photo to enlarge it. He's there in that fenced-in area in the lower left. The fence is to keep out the deer and the raccoons, and the occasional mountain lion.