This week the strangest thing happened to me. Due to frustration over the way life turns out sometimes I was momentarily reduced to a childish level of emotion and actually whined “I try so hard to do everything right!”   This sentiment, as it happens, is...

Pillow talk. No doubt these keywords will draw a few extra clicks, as there is more than one interpretation of what they mean.   I remember watching a movie with that title.   We’ll get there in a minute, Lily, but for now you and 9 should probably close...

Hey everyone, I have great news! Remember the mystery flora from a few blogs back, the one that I thought might be a Shasta daisy, or possibly a carnivorous mobile plant as featured in the 1951 John Wyndham novel The Day of the Triffids?   Sadly, yes, I do...

At this time of year, it’s hard not to think of dandelions. They’re everywhere! In my neighbor to the east’s pollinator garden, in my neighbor to the west’s lawn that’s cut by a crew every Thursday, and in my front lawn that I occasionally mow with a battery-powered...

With spring and extended hours of daylight comes the annual phenomenon:

You know how it is when you move into a different house, one with a bit of garden, and things pop up from the earth that surprise you?   Sounds like a monster movie!   Not like zombies or vampires, 9. I’m talking about flora. You know, the clue in a...