Happy Earth Day with happy birdies

Today I celebrated Earth Day by poking around the yard and admiring the birds. The bright blue jays and cardinals are easy to love. The small birds need a closer look, but just the other day I spotted a beautiful little White-Crowned Sparrow, and I could swear I’m still seeing juncos out there. Chickadees are […]

Plum blossom one

Spring this year is coming rather leisurely. But here’s the first plum blossom. All we need now is for that bitter wind to calm down and let the sun shine on the bees.

Unsunny forsythia

Note to self: If you’re ever in a position to do a fresh planting of forsythia (as opposed to inheriting the previous owner’s shrub placement decision), and if you wish to avoid such a half-hearted display of flowers not even sufficient to conceal the sparrows on the branches from cats and hawks — make sure […]

This blog is getting passed over

My two favorite holidays are Thanksgiving and Passover. Yes, you guessed it: I’m all about the food. Tonight we’re going to our friends’ Nth Annual Passover, and staying a wee bit late. If you celebrate Passover, enjoy. If not, enjoy anyway.

I got nothing

But a cat on my lap. Isn’t that enough?

Bees high and low

So the bees flying around the top of the butterfly bush aren’t miner bees after all. The miner bees are somewhere else.

In which I blame the Internet for my own lack of discipline

I wasn’t doing too badly. A couple days ago, I finally got back to the point where all my finished stories are submitted. Yesterday, I finally got serious about sorting out the current silly story, and figuring what I want to do with it, and deciding that I want to be done with that stage […]

Tulips good too

The flower for today is tulips. Are tulips. Is tulip? I guess grammar and flowers don’t mix.

Rain is good

I guess I don’t have to worry about watering for a few days. Those are scallions waiting to be pricked apart and planted … somewhere. I haven’t quite decided yet, and there are still scallions, onions, garlic, and shallots tucked away in various corners. Flanking it are two varieties of cilantro, and behind it is […]

Fun stuff

Today’s “fun” task was to finally tackle our taxes. No, it wasn’t. Today’s fun task was to hack down the deader parts of the butterfly bush, while lots of what sure looked like little reddish brown bees swirled around the dried out buds. Lots of them. I think they’re miner bees, but they didn’t find […]