My first gordita

Life in California: Birdsong, flea markets, melty cheese, and chile

Photo by Joshua Kantarges on Unsplash

My neighbor Claudia says that every spring, the blue jays and the mockingbirds duke it out. They can’t both occupy the same slice of neighborhood, so some summers we have blue jays and some, mockingbirds. This year, the mockingbirds won, and I know that well because one in particular likes to perch itself staunchly atop…