This image taken by a guest is from Glendeven's Briar Rose room.
Tonight's Glendeven Inn appetizer is a beet "sushi" with roasted beets from the Glendeven garden, quinoa cakes, Laura Chanel goat cheese with nasturtium leaves and sliced oranges as a garnish.
beekeeping class with the nice folks at Marin Beekeeping Company in Novato, CA.
After all their green "skirts" are long gone, these ladies appear along our south fence by the thousands.
Being a little man, PJ breaks from the herd at times and spends some "alone time" grazing and watching the Glendeven view. The ladies are never too far and usually within sight, but we think he likes his independence. 
Today they made their debut at Glendeven. Sunshine and green grass. Very happy kids.
Seven duck eggs ready to hatch any day now at Glendeven! This is the 25th day, and they'll be out by the 28th day. Will keep you posted. 
Here you see Mama Llama giving one of her generous "kisses." Her daughter, Carla (shown below) also gives kisses. These are llama-style greetings. They don't like hands or to be touched, but they'll freely give this types of kiss. Affection, but on their terms.
And as shown here, he is not so lonely that he doesn't find mischief. Here you can see him inside the "duck proof" fence we built around the fish pond.
We have about 24 duck eggs left that hadn't yet been used for baking (which is how we use the very rich duck eggs), and they're fertile. So we decided to incubate them and soon we'll hopefully have the offspring of our dear departed flock running around the property.
Below is a picture of a candled egg showing the growth after eight days. All systems go on the big Glendeven duck incubation.
I just took a five minute walk around the property and have proof here that spring has already begun!
Free-range chickens are happy laying chickens.
If you time it just right, the weather in January is amazing in Mendocino.
