Squirrels are everywhere. They’re digging up my gardens, and everyone’s lawns. In this city, where they lack any real predators (foxes, owls, raptors), they are absurdly abundant. I attempted to […]

I was inspecting the front yard to see if any more volunteer roses popped up when I found the body of a wild rabbit under a bush. The rabbit looked […]

I’ve seen these beautiful purple flowers growing outside of an art museum in town. Turns out there is a historical museum that grows them in a small conservatory garden. They […]

Collected close to six pounds of tomatoes. The temps hit 0 Celcius this morning so I scrambled to collect as many tomatoes as possible.

I heard the unmistakeable chittering of a mole in pain, so I hopped outside to find my cat had cornered the mole near a log. Got some of the cat-mole […]

The soil around the iris patch is bare, and the roots are exposed — as they should be. However, I don’t feel the irises are providing much aesthetic value to […]

I didn’t plant it. It doesn’t match the color of the roses already growing. I’m very happy. I’m going to let it grow wild and not prune it at all. […]

I don’t use my front door all that much. So a spider set up camp. I had pizza delivered the night before, and the delivery guy pointed out the spider. […]

My neighbor was kind enough to give me the clippings from his mower — five large paper bags in all. I decided to seed winter rye, buckwheat, and clover in […]