November's first rains start the season I call Clouds and Light. After months of brilliant blue, sunny skies, the weather…
One year of seeds brings seven years of weeds! Three things will make your life easier when it comes to…
Hello! Just wanted all my blog followers to know that I have switched from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org and now my…
It is a commonly heard in casual remarks on gardening topics and maintaining a landscape in the Sierra Foothills that…
"The more people know about bats the more they'll care about them." Sitting out tonight, while watering, I noticed a…
or ...Why I remember a Sunset Magazine article from 1999. A few months before we bought our place here in…
The natural meadow in the second year By that, I mean, this is the second year that I have weeded…
I'm only mentioning my impressions of the house pad prep, because to tell it all would be very boring. Although,....we…
Butterfly gardeners begin this way….they see a colorful butterfly in their garden and start paying attention. They want to see…
First views of my garden at the first of April.... First views is the brainchild of Town Mouse, with the…
March is coming in like a lamb. What does that mean? A little rain, a little snow, just an inch…
What I thought might be buckeye or elderberry, turns out to be pokeweed! Darn! My sister helped my identify this…
Across the valley, where Willow Creek flows south, there is a tall sugarpine that becomes backlit at a certain point…
Gophers and other living garden pests can drain the enthusiasm from the hardiest gardener in the California Sierra foothills. To…
While going out to photograph my 'first views' of February in my California mountain garden, I already know that my…
The first photo is from a set taken this month after a small fire broke out in the valley a…
We took this photo up on the hill above our house, in the California Sierra foothills on Tuesday. There is…
"In the woods.., a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough , and at what period soever…