Archives in Category: Flora/Fauna

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The Greenest Thumb

While I’m in the mood, I’ll write another blog about gardening, a summer activity I’ve done fairly regularly for about 55 years. That’s long enough to learn a thing or two not only about plants but also about energy. Not

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New Toy

In the kitchen, I’m not a gadget person. I don’t own a garlic press, a juice squeezer, an air fryer, or an Instapot. After all, I was raised by a woman who thought a butter knife was a perfect double

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Just in Time, Maybe

Fall arrived officially today, although I don’t know the exact time. I read somewhere that the autumnal equinox (and I don’t actually know what that is) means there are exactly twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness on

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Back to Normal

The DNC has folded its tent like Bedouins in the desert cameling away. And life is as normal as possible in these times.

I turn to my gardens, which didn’t turn out at all like I’d hoped this year. My

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Kamala’s Night

It’s the last night of the DNC. Kamala (or ,la) Harris will make her case, The delegates will cheer; the pundits will pund; and the opinion columnists will opine. Tomorrow Chicago will remove all its armor from the streets around

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Early Fall

I see signs in nature everywhere that it could be an early fall. It isn’t even the middle of August, but my mums are starting to bloom. My lettuce has bitten the dust. The herbs have gone to seed. And

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Worms and Other Earthy Things

I’m a squeamish gardener. I love plants and planting, can tolerate getting my hands dirty, and can deadhead with the best. BUT I do not like the creatures who live in and around my gardens. The worms, the bugs, the

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Crystal Springs

Crystal Springs is a popular local florist that has a garden center from early May through the end of July. It offers thousands of annuals and perennials to avid gardeners during the growing season, and I have spent many a

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Plant Police

It has come to my attention that my approach to gardening, explained in my July 13, blog hit a nerve with a couple friends with whom I had wine recently. They knew I was moving annuals around, pulling perennials out,

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More on the Renovation

I sat on the patio last night and am currently enjoying it this evening. Have watered my plants, since the sprinklers go on only Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And it’s Saturday, a blistering hot Saturday at that.

I can’t tell

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