We woke up to find streams of toilet paper hanging from the limbs of the big cedar elm tree near the street.
We walked around the tree several times staring in amazement - who would do this to us? Teenagers do this sort of thing to other teenagers, right? But not to […]
Yesterday’s rains cooled things off. After I returned from taking the cats to the vet for their shots I was able to spend a little time outside working. The cenizos were in bloom, as they always are after a summer rain. In the afternoon I sat on the porch swing in […]
Today is my last day in the office at the current location of the company I work for. On Monday the company will reopen in a new building about 15 miles north of where we are now.
Besides the fact that I will have to drive that long additional 15 miles there are […]
One of my native plant enthusiast friends likes to say that “a weed is anything that you don’t want in your garden.” The point being that if you like a plant it is not a weed, no matter what category someone else might put it in. I had a […]
The first year we had the Hibiscus coccinea it bloomed on Tricia’s birthday. Now the flowers come a few weeks earlier but it serves as a good reminder for me.
It will continue to bloom as long as it stays warm, then it will die down to the ground […]
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