Well, I am not really assessing anything – I only wanted to highlight the fact that I am taking a break today from yard and garden work. Not that the garden is not assessment-worthy: There have been some accomplishments and early successes: The woodland garden in front of the house holds pretty much all the […]
Archive for the ‘Rants & Raves’ Category
Assessment time
Posted in Edible, Rants & Raves, Recipe on May 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Median strip
Posted in Flora, Invasive, Plant bio, Rants & Raves on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are miles and miles of highway on and off cape. Although those artificially created corridors are intended for human traffic, they are also occasionally used by wildlife and plantlife to get around. Granted, when it comes to wildlife it is more often a treshold, boundary and all too often, killing field. I put a […]
The fragility of it all
Posted in Flora, Rants & Raves on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just yesterday there was the euphoria of seeing the twinleaf bloom in my yard, for the fist time. I only had a few minutes, as I had come home later than usual and the light was fleeting fast. The pictures could be taken tomorrow, I thought. Alas, it is not to be. The twinleaf is […]
Bird Up!
Posted in Fauna, Guest blogger, Rants & Raves on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Every day now there is a fashion show going on in my backyard. My admission price is supplying the models with plenty of food. These models definitely don’t like to starve. The stars of the show are the red-winged blackbirds with their shock of striking color hidden in each fold of wing. They top understated elegance when it comes to bird-style. You can’t […]
Really ticked off about the trees
Posted in Guest blogger, Interesting, Rants & Raves on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When I lived in the city, I had some sad looking trees on my street that often ended up covered with trash on the weekends (making them look that much more sad). One day a public utility truck backed up into one across the street from my apartment and left it there, broken and dying. […]
Super moon and more harbingers of spring
Posted in Interesting, Rants & Raves on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The herring are in, the herring are in! There’s activity at the Cape Cod canal herring run as well as in Brewster. Despite the snow and sleet they have determined it is time to venture into fresh water. Maybe they were moved by the “Super moon” of March 19. That day (or night) the moon […]
The big dig
Posted in Fauna, Rants & Raves, Tips on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
185 bulbs, and counting… That is the latest tally of squirrel victims. All that is left in evidence is a crater and a petal or some other overlooked morsel. Even though the bulbs, mostly crocus, were on sale, there was the multi-week effort of planting. Now all that is gone, Las Vegas buffet style… Mind […]
Thank You, John Hay
Posted in Guest blogger, Rants & Raves on March 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I opened the Cape Cod Times news and saw that John Hay had passed. Hay is quoted on the home page, and every page of this blog: In particular “Get down in nature, down in the water and the dirt” resonates. Now that he has passed on, that quote for me has even more impact […]
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Posted in Fauna, Interesting, Rants & Raves on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It is still cold out there, with weather systems still bringing occasional snow, sleet and rain. However, Punxsatawney Phil did predict an early Spring this year, and maybe others in the animal kingdom agree. For the last week or so I’ve observed a flock of Regulus calendula (ruby-crowned kinglet), mostly females and an occasional male, […]
Pre-season
Posted in Rants & Raves on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It may be winter and the soil may be frozen, but I find this to be one of the busiest times of the year if you’re into plants. I find myself pacing the yard already and making guesses on whether such-and-such plant will appear in a few short months. Now is the time to think about […]