How Does Your Garden Grow?

After I got back from yesterday’s bike tour and crashed out in the livingroom watching the finish of the marathon I woke up to find my Baybee hard at work clearing and cultivating along the north fence, the better to get a garden of ‘maters and spinach and lettucesses growing. I later recovered enough to …

Fauxtoshop

From 320 x 240 bluriffic pixels captured on the BirdBathCam to this overblown and heavily filtered piece of fartistic indulgification, ladies and gents I bring you the infinitely quadruplificable “Robin at the Wellspring.”

Gallery of Backyarchaeology: Basement Pulley

Here’s a day-after-Christmas addition to the Gallery of Backyarchaeology: I’ve been going down into the basement for more than three years and it wasn’t until I was under there doing some organizing December 26 that I noticed this small pulley mechanism screwed into a floor beam in relative plain sight. Its rusted condition and iron …

Gallery of Backyarchaeology

Well it ain’t as fancy as I’d been thinking of doing it, but it’s done. After these several years of writing about various finds excavated from the trove that is our backyard (such as the World War II-era German army helmet unearthed in 2006), I finally got all the crap together, set up a cheapass …

Behold: The Yellow-Breasted Splash’n Dasher

In my webcammings of late I’ve been pointing the camera through a window out into the side garden at a makeshift birdbath that I set up awhile ago during some particularly nasty hot and dry spell. To my consterned surprise the effort went entirely ignored for a few weeks by what turned out to be …