Butterfly A-light
Butterfly Alight Daily Photo The poor butterfly was just trying to get a meal but a fellow photographer and I followed him like paparazzi.
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Cactus Flower
White Light Daily Photo
Read moreClematis
Clematis Daily photo Did I mention I love my new camera? I didn’t even crop this photo. Point, focus, click. Pow, look at the Purple.
Read moreRose, Rose, Rose
Bee heaven AKA a Rio Samba rose Daily photo No, I did not saturate this. These are the actual colors.
Read moreFireworks Already?
Fourth of July Rose Daily Photo This is a relatively new climbing rose–first offered for sale in 1999. I love the unusual explosive shape of the petals and the white, red and pink almost stripes. Best of all, it blooms a good part of the summer. Also its extremely hardy. A gopher ate half it’s roots last summer and the
Read moreFrom My Mother's Garden
Glissade with Wings Daily Photo I’m captured by the beauty of Columbines from the native oranges in yesterday’s photo to today’s pure white. This one is from my mother’s garden
Read moreBirdbath at the Basilisk's House
Birdbath at the Basilisk’s House What birds dare splash when they see what happened to those that bathed before? Photo A Day #4
Read moreGardening: A Secret Pleasure
The best writing on gardening comes not from Vita Sackville-West or even from well-known Humboldt dirt digger, Amy Stewart ( though I enjoy them both.) What inspires me to weed, what wafts through my head like the savory scent of bread baking–enticing me onward towards an idealized version of my own yard comes from some writing by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Read moreIt was a Flatheaded Apple Borer Day
A Flatheaded Apple Borer sounds like an overenthusiastic, preachy and not so intelligent vegetarian I once knew. But, in reality, the creature is a nasty little worm that tunnels winding holes in the bark of fruit trees (actually it also can be found on madrone, oak and other native species, too.) Today, Poet and pruner, Dan Brewer came to Salmon
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