Have a green Halloween!
Photo: Nature Conservancy Tips from the Nature Conservancy for a green Halloween: http://www.nature.org/greenliving/gogreen/greenholidays...
Bee house
bee house for solitary bees Yesterday we visited the Oakland Museum to see the "Bees: Tiny Insect, Big Impact" exhibit...
More about the palm leaf wood chips...
Closeup of palm leaf wood chips covering soil in the Sunshine blueberry container pot In yesterday's post I mentioned that I cut up the...
Happy Spring!
It's that time of year to decorate our home with symbols of Spring and hope! Above are eggs that we hollowed out and decorated with...
Yikes! It's whitefly blight!
White fly larvae on a leaf of the Lisbon lemon tree. Well, apparently the lemon tree was very lucky all these years, with no diseases....
Conserving water
rainwater cistern We have always tried to conserve water as much as possible, but last December, when we actually had some rainstorms, we...
Our bedding supplies are accepted!
I took the photo above yesterday morning. As you can see, at least a third of the cat fur is gone! I didn't actually see any birds come...
Come and get it!
We decided to go with the bird suet receptacle for storing and presenting bird nesting material. It costs less than 5 dollars and you can...
Springtime is nesting time!
bird in the neighbors' apple tree For the past week or so, there is a lot of singing, chirping, warbling and yes, twittering, going on in...
All-purpose, no waste Halloween pumpkins!
Now that Halloween is past (1 week ago!) , our pumpkins are on their way to completing a full circle, turning to compost for other plants...
