It’s Aliiiiiiiive!
Yeah, I know… Coyote Corner doesn’t looks much different than it did in the webcam still captured the afternoon after planting 100 sunflower seeds in it five days ago, but trust me, we’ve got a nice bunch of sprouts rising. There’s more than 30 coming up in the patch itself, and a few more I …
My Sunflower Timelapse Has Begun
So I tilled some earth yesterday. I love saying that: “tilled some earth.” Show of hands, when was the last time any of you city slickers boasted of that activity, huh? [crickets] Anyway, this city slicker got busy yesterday with the electric tiller on the corner patch of ground in the front yard (pictured above) …
First Fleur
I’d wager it was two years ago when the gardening crew that we ultimately fired for using a gas-powered leafblower against our repeated requests not to, helped seal its fate when they apparently mistook this flourishing plant in the frontyard planter box and whacked the hell out of it. That or they just didn’t give …
Ballona Creek Under Overland 7:10 p.m.
(click for the bigger picture) The long afternoon’s worth of rain had passed before nightfall, and when I left work near 7 p.m. I was eager to see what increase there might be to Ballona Creek’s water level. The good news is it wasn’t enough to warrant the locking of the bikeway entrance gates. The …
Re:Solutions
I don’t have any REAL resolutions for this year. No definitive achievements being sought, no dietary restrictions. Nothing along the lines of “read a book a month,” although it wouldn’t hurt if I picked up a tennis racquet and swung it at least that often. I have some creative goals in mind and a fantasy …
Yosemite Christmas Pix Are Up!
Susan’s still working on her collection, but got her awesome pix up here, and I managed to cull some 185 snaps from the more than 400 I shot during our three days in Yosemite — such as this one, taken by a kind gentleman who offered to snap Susan and me backdropped by Half Dome …