All our animals are rescues in one way or another, whether we found them or they found us, our menagerie is all a matter of crucial timing and/or serendipity — and that includes our Russian tortoise Buster who my mother basically unearthed whiled gardening in the yard of her Sherman Oaks home back in October …
Our cat Bink is somewhere approaching his fourth month of self-imposed outdoor exile — this despite our best failed efforts to trap him a couple weekends ago utilizing the old baited-crate-balanced-on-a-stick-tied-with-string routine. He knows where home is and sticks close by and we see him pretty regularly either live or pixelized when his image gets …
Just a couple things discovered whilst making my way through some of the outdoor portion of my morning chores. First up, there used to be a whole mess of aloe plants growing haphazardly in the frontyard planter box at the top of the steps, and it was about three years ago Susan when did some …
Back in March I posted about a remarkable cactus pad draped over the north fence that while disconnected from the mother plant still somehow managed to nurture five smaller pads that were thriving forth from it, even though the pad itself was dying. Then in April I did an update about how so moved I …
Wanted to give a visual update on the sunflowers we planted May 3 (click for the bigger picture). The 10 I first posted about here are in the foreground — pretty much peat-pot-and-all transplanted into the ground in the same order as they were in that photo. The rest behind were planted in a row …
Since the stair guy’s piled up his tools and stuff in such a way as to block the cam’s view of the patio table (and thus any late-night Bink sightings, yesterday I oriented it west for a shot down the south side of the house. Not because anything special goes on, but because at least …
What you’re looking at is the beginnings of nine out of ten sunflower seeds I planted a week ago Sunday. They are actually two varieties. The five in the back are children of a magnificent sunflower grown last year by my friend Jo up near Vacaville who sent me some seeds from it. The seedlings …