Here's some photos of the berms at the lemon tree site. It is a sun scoop shape surrounded by an even bigger sun scoop. The soil is pretty rocky and has pretty much no organic matter. Mostly we seeded it with nitrogen fixers, ground covers, and weeds of all sorts in an effort to start building some good soil.

There hasn't been a lemon tree planted yet.

An elk at night and a couple of shots of some turkeys hanging out with some deer.

A couple more shots of that first elk, then two more elk!

a fawn, a running deer, and an elk

The shots from this other camera should have the correct date.

The very elusive greenhouse and somewhat elusive mountain lion!

A bear!

Some fawns playing in the water, and a coyote

A couple shots of an elk and another bird

Here's some deer with velvety antlers

A couple of shots of what looks like a robin, and an elk

Paul said it is boring with so many deer, so now i will just be posting the highlights.

So, here is a pretty clear coyote and a couple shots of an elk.

Paul,
How many inches of dry earth and wet earth are you imagining right at the very top edge? I'm wondering what the dimensions and orientation of the shoring would be there, so that it is strong enough to hold back all that earth (and the weight of the facade) while only attached to the end grain of the roof poles.

Davin, looking at your most recent drawings that you posted in January, i believe that you switched the duff and subsoil layers. My understanding is that the dry earth layer (which you have labeled subsoil) will act as the heat storage for the wofati. So, we need to insulate the dry earth from the more conductive wet earth layer (which you have labeled topsoil), not from the wofati interior.

Just a reminder: the photos from this game cam (after the snow) are from 2016, not 2015.

a couple of turkeys and a deer

a couple turkeys and a couple deer

a turkey and a couple deer.

a few turkeys

A deer and a couple of turkeys.

a couple of deer and a turkey

a turkey and a couple of deer (one mule deer?)

a couple of deer and a turkey

a lone deer and then a big group moving through

A deer and a couple coyote shots.

a few deer

The back end of another elk and a couple of deer.

Two shots of one elk and a deer.

A deer and a couple of elk! The same elk twice in 20 minutes?

A couple of deer and a glimpse of an elk.

A couple more coyotes and a deer.

Coyotes! One isn't even very blurry!

Another blurry coyote in the snow (going the other way), and a couple deer

A coyote in the snow, and a couple of deer.

A few deer.

A few deer. Are the second and third deer the same? I don't imaging it was standing there looking at the frozen puddle for 30 minutes.

a few deer

Another blurry coyote, and a couple of deer.

A couple of deer. Plus a coyote? They sure do move fast.

Some blurs that are maybe coyotes? plus a deer getting a drink.

A few deer. You can see it says it was snowing on August 10th. That didn't happen.

Now some photos from the third (newest) game cam. For some reason it keeps resetting its date to be sometime in august or september of 2015, so most of the dates on these are probably wrong.

First are some deer and a turkey.