Couple days ago I reported that Susan discovered a pair of house sparrows that have leased out the space inside one of the backyard paper lanterns for their spring home. Susan posted pix of the project in its infancy and yesterday I checked in to see what kind of progress they’ve been making. I’d say …
Susan scooped me on the backyard’s newest tenants, a mating pair of sparrows that are moving into a paper lantern dangling from the northeast corner of the house and busy constructing a nest within it. Being made of the aforementioned paper, the lanterns (there’s another hung from the southeast corner) are actually in pretty sad …
I may not have time to stop and smell the flowers whenever I want but I can always spare a second and snap their picture (click image to go big): I love the wrinkled-paper look of the delicate petals and I don’t care who knows it.
With luck, attention and the proper mix of conditions, nutrients, and whatever else is needed for its success, I’m hopeful this little six-inch Afghan pine (aka desert pine, eldar pine) sapling that I transplanted into a nice-sized pot yesterday afternoon will grow to become a living Christmas tree for us to decorate either this year …
Christmas comes but once a year, but it seems that afterward it can be a veritable eternity watching discarded Christmas trees decomp by the curbs upon which their irresponsible discard-‘tards dump them. Short of dedicating the waste management resources to pick up directly after this legion of post-holiday idiots, the city of Los Angeles goes …
I hadn’t seen one of these magnificent creatures in awhile. The last one being near the horticulture offices of the L.A. Zoo… and that was two years ago. Coincidentally, after going through and checking out some of my Flickr contacts’ latest submissions yesterday and finding this fine one posted, I wondered how long it might …
As I get set to go for a bike ride after this post with plans to be back by mid-afternoon to meet with the first of a couple prospective pup adopters, I’ve been scrolling through the images from our roadtrip vacation and I got the urge to post a couple/three from our Yellowstone excursion for …