fly-by-posting 2023/10/22 (w/pic)
When’s the last time you played with milkweed seeds? They’re so fluffy and soft!
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 41
See Previous | See Next This week things definitely feel and look like fall, even though the days have still been pretty warm. I’ve been neglecting my planter-box flowers, but the snapdragons continue blooming prettily regardless, undaunted. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows this is definitely the time of year when the echinacea, whose flowers have been turning so scraggly brown, make a fall-foliage comeback with pretty, yellow leaves that offset the brown stems and seed heads so…
fly-by-posting 2023/10/14 (w/pic)
My husband is awesome.
Roses Round-up 2023
Now that we’ve reached the end of the season, I wanted to show you a round-up of all my pretty roses. I can’t say that I’m an excellent rose gardener. My primary gardening technique is to keep planting things until some things don’t die, and that’s pretty much the same approach I use with my roses. This means 1) I have kind of a random assortment and 2) I count things as a success even if I get only two…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 40
See Previous | See Next This week was pear-picking week (for a pear-picking hour; there were disconcertingly few pears this year), as fall proceeds apace. As promised, I do have one rose to show off, which the squirrel has mysteriously decided to leave unmolested. Viking Queen can be a bit floppy (for me anyway), but her roses are always so lovely, especially these late season ones. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows last year’s Viking Queen, as well…
fly-by-posting 2023/10/08
If you find yourself nodding off in a talk about solar flare(s), know that it’s not the speaker’s fault. It’s the solar flare(s).
fly-by-posting 2023/10/07
Remember: Just about any topic of scientific research can be made fascinating by the right speaker. Except solar flares. You’ve been warned.
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 39
See Previous | See Next This week my one, shy cyclamen is blooming while most of everything else not in planter boxes is headed to seed – very October-y. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years has a note or two about late re-blooming roses, which I might get to follow-up again this year, depending on whether the last bud gets eaten by the squirrel or not. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years there’s also a hint about snow…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 38
See Previous | See Next (published late due to scheduling error – was supposed to publish Sep.26th!) This week the weather has been lovely, not too hot and not too cold. Though lots of things, like the sunflowers, are going brown and to seed, others are taking a second opportunity to put out more blooms. The crab apples are blushing and the asters are fluttery soft. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows us the fruits and flowers of…
Introduce-the-Story Themes: SSCS01 – Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory
Anxious Disclaimer: Okay, so this post may likely come off as really self-involved. But, well, this is a blog, and lots of blogs are pretty self-involved, almost by definition. Also, I know perfectly well there will be lots more self-involved blog posts to come. So, I’m hemming and hawing here at the top probably because this has to do with my writing, and writing has been a dream of mine for a really long time, and that makes it lots…