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Subtitled, "Musings of an artist loosed in a garden," this is a wide-ranging, free-associating blog dedicated to the intersections of gardening, art, photography, landscape, and nature.
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from 8.8.88 to 8.8.08
Although this is not a political blog, it’s a space that acknowledges that you can’t escape the world, even nested within the walled confines of your privategarden spaces. An event that crept ...
yellowstone “wild” flowers
There were a number of spring flowers doing their thing at Yellowstone a couple weeks ago. I saw a patch of bright yellow and took this photo: Yes, dandelions. They were all over. I talked to a range...
wild and out of control
All over town here in San Diego you see the black mustard plant, Brassica nigra, now approaching the end of its blooming period. The undulating yellow mounds of it doing its thing are a spectac...
scorched earth gardening
After my last post I did more research on controlling English ivy. Beyond the commonly-quoted advice to spray with herbicides, or to attempt the mechanical removal that is occupying me these days, I s...
vegetable plutonium
In my more active anti-nuke activist days one of the more compelling arguments against nuclear power was that some of its byproducts were so long-lived that they would remain lethal for longer than hu...
weeds weeds weeds
Lots of times I’m glad to be living in Southern California where winters are mild and things hardly ever freeze. Today’s one of those amazing winter days: brilliantly sunny, warm–and...