Monthly Archives: July 2003

mysteries of cat behavior

Sapphire likes to bring us things in the night. It used to be a set of coasters woven in China perhaps of some basket-like f…

july flowers

As we begin summer in the garden, let’s take a survey of what is going on. Texas betony is starting to fade. The wine…

hailstorm

Just at nightfall yesterday we had a dramatic storm. I had lingered outside to talk with a neighbor as the clouds built up…

driveway project revisited

Some time back I wrote here that we were removing a wide swath of grass and replacing it with gravel in order to provide mor…

zexmenia

If you hear plant people talking about a “sex maniac” in their garden they are probably talking about Zexm…