Yesterday, while kayaking, i drifted into some water grass and watched a dragonfly being born. When a certain Jurassic-looking waterbug is r...

My sweetie told me that his mother--also named Sweetie--loved gardenias. They reminded her of the corsages she wore to debutante parties whe...

Local libraries and garden clubs are having plant sale fund-raisers on Saturday mornings in May. What a great opportunity for me to make a c...

My rule-of-(green)-thumb is to plant and transplant in May and stop the first weekend in June when the weather becomes too warm and dry. Usu...

I ran into my friend Barbara at the garden center. She didn't see me at first because she was studying the lavenders with a wrinkled bro...

A phoebe wags its tail as it sits on the back of a lawn chair. This perch gives it a birds-eye view of insects flying around two feet above ...

Do i wish the robin would sing a different song? Do i want the woodpecker not to rat-a-tat-tat? Or the chickadee not to hop into the birdfee...