The sunflowers are starting. My son and husband alerted me to the single bloom in our backyard in early May, just as I was steeling myself to face the dry, too-bright months ahead. Keeping my spring flowers – marigolds, primrose, salvia, Read more…
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“It’s lupine time! Go lupines, go lupines, go, go, go lupines!” spontaneously chanted my 5-year-old on our walk to his brother’s school mid-March. He does know how to celebrate, when he’s not fighting over who ran fastest down the hill. Read more…
The palo verde tree that planted itself, helped shape our front yard and shade our house, and beautifully flowered each spring, has to come down. We might have been able to save it if only a few branches were damaged, an Read more…
“I need to keep digging to find that leak,” I updated my school gardening colleague. “There’s a leak?” he asked, surprised. I remembered he’d been off campus for a week and had seen neither my new dirt pile or the Read more…
We eat our breakfast outside. Every summer morning around 6:30 my two young boys and I schlep a simple meal to the backyard, pick a place to sit, and celebrate the company of birds, opening blooms, and warming-up cicadas. After Read more…
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