a trench manicure

Printed in the home & garden extra of the April 13-15 East Bay/South Coast Life section of some local rags… If it weren’t for daffodils we might never register that winter’s well and truly over before summer hits. They are nature’s way of sending a message that’s about as subtle as a smile...

This was already published here on 2-10-11 but I thought it might be better avec photos of The Noodle. Dogs put us outside, not the other way around I read somewhere once that it’s impossible to have a garden if you share the land with a dog. Baloney. Such anti-canine sentiment smacks of pro-feline ...

One morning a couple of weeks ago, while Nino waited patiently, I spent about 10 predawn minutes herding and urging a salamander along a sidewalk crack to a pile of leaves on the other side. This afternoon I tried – and failed – to relocate a downed dragonfly that clung desperately to th...

Most of you already know that I’ve been writing a gardening column called Down to Earth. It appears every couple of weeks or so -in print- in the East Bay/South Shore Life section of a few local newspaper-lets. When the editor has time/the inclination he – or perhaps his intern if such a...