these are a few delightful sights I have been delighted by on this particular Thursday (in chronological order): nasturtium buds peeking fro...

I spent a week in California (mostly San Diego) earlier this month. we did lots of beautiful and silly and fun things. twenty years later, D...

seasons of 90 days each. seems like plenty of time. one quarter of a full circle, fair time for each mood of the year. what was I wanting to...

if I were more studied at botany I might know what this creeping weed is called. do any of you know? it doesn't matter much. whatever ...

do I want a bunch of these beautiful agave plants in my yard?  yes.  

it's been a while since I last blogged about my plant collection . so here's a small update.  above, there set that does best with...

I think this is a small shrubby redbud tree. not sure though. it has a neighbor along our walking trail. the two trees are more like bushes,...

thinking about going places. far away places. nearby places have their charm... but running errands is mostly tiring; walking the dog is l...

not very long ago at all I actually stopped and read this poem, " Optimism " by Jane Hirschfield, posted ephemerally somewhere som...

yesterday, on a lark I looked at the date and trawled through my blogpost archive to find all the posts that just happened to be posted on F...

can these miscellaneous photos become something else if I throw them together in a blogpost today? can they tell a real story or scaffold th...

this isn't the best photograph, but you might be able to see the praying mantis chilling there on my gollum jade plant. it's hanging...

it was shady on the west face of Badger Mountain this morning. the inward corners between each ridge were especially cool. at the crest...

the local public library is doing free Monday night yoga this summer, led by one of the proprietors of this local yoga place that I haven...

there are magnolia trees, all over our neighborhood, with floppy blooms that are big enough to eat your face if they wanted to. even as...

it has been a week of ups and downs and chaos, post-vacation highs and crunch-time woes. but slivers of wonderfulness got mixed in with the ...

disappointment paralysis: when all narrativium sloshes from one side of your life to the other and spills away uncontrollably, leaving you t...

it is the season of fireflies. the intermittent glinting of those little bugs is one of the most marvelous parts of living in this sticky, e...