Garden delights
It's almost October and yet we're just past the peak of produce growing in our backyard. This September has had the lowest temperatures...
What a great project!
This is one of the beautiful, larger than life murals by Brooklyn based-artist George Boorujy in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York....
If you're in the Bay Area, you must attend!
It's always fun at Annie's parties. There is live music, all kinds of prizes, and you're surrounded by all those lovely plants.
Monarch caterpillars in the garden
We are still busy raising the last group of monarch caterpillars we brought indoors when they were just eggs on milkweed cuttings. We...
Ladybugs working hard around the patio
We had a pretty good-sized infestation of little orange aphids in the backyard, particularly on two of our larger narrow leaf milkweed...
Oh, the sunsets
These days the sunsets are so dramatic. And since we live higher up in the hills we are so lucky to see this show every evening. Of...