When my brain woke up at 4:30 a.m. Thursday morning, it tossed and turned a wide range of need-to-dos: scheduling a work project actually outside my control, catching up on yesterday’s errands, up-potting young plants that have one by one Read more…
Ask the sunflowers. Among three different Tucson-area locations I tend, sunflowers are sprouting this spring in: pots and raised beds where my son and I planted them (barrel in title image), a rock border where seeds accidently scattered, deeply-watered beds Read more…
Overheard about snow near the end of February, 2022… “It’s soft.” “It’s like a sponge, a snow sponge.” “Mom, we found a stalagmite, I mean a stalactite.” “It’s like cotton candy.” “OK, we can just snack on snow cones.” Read more…
This post is purely practical. Click on the link or links that might help you most! The first two files are updated versions of the most popular hand-outs in Nature to You classes. The third file I referenced in All-Ages Read more…
Brrrr! Slip some shoes on, don’t bother with a jacket, grab the pile of tattered old sheets and towels, and toss them over the six or so plants and beds that I don’t want to freeze on a freezing night. Read more…
The melon’s parents grew on a commercial farm, likely in Yuma. It was delivered to Basha’s or Albertson’s, then consumed by my family, sometime in 2020. Our family dubbed this variety “Grocery Store Cantaloupe”. The melon’s parents grew in a Read more…
Eclectic. Wild. Scattered. Littered with the kids’ toys and gardening projects unfinished. I love my yard and also admit to zooming in on favorite plants for blog and Facebook posts to hide the mess of the big picture. When a Read more…
“Do you want to see a huuuuge spider, Mom?” asked my 11-year-old. We were both exploring the Marana Community Garden in our own way. My son was peeking and poking along the perimeter of plot 37, stopping when he spotted Read more…
When my 11-year-old gets up early and joins me on the back patio to read in the rain while I sip my coffee and watch the water, life is a little sweeter. When the same kid cheerfully gets his jacket Read more…
“Cats, dogs, yummy supper, getting to play Minecraft this afternoon, getting to play soccer after supper” rattled off my 8-year-old during “Thank-yous” at the end of supper last Sunday. Like a lot of Tucson families, we hide during the hotter Read more…
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