With several days above 80 degrees this week, it’s feeling like spring. And surveying the garden, it’s looking like spring too. Lest any of you in the lands of blizzards and crazy snowfall think I’m gloating, let me show you… Read More »almost spring
The color combination of blue and orange reminds me of noisy kiddie toys, of hard molded plastic waiting room chairs, of harshly lit 1970s fast-food restaurants trying unsuccessfully to look modern and friendly, or of jerseys for some high school… Read More »blue and orange (gbbd)
This is it. High spring in San Diego. There are probably more things blooming now in the garden than there will be at any other time of year. I start with the current state of the agave that I’ve been… Read More »high spring (gbbd)
I was confused the other day. Walking by the young plum tree, I noticed this. Flowers? In November? Apparently the plum was confused too. After the long summer doldrums a lot in the garden is finally showing signs of waking… Read More »looking like spring again
The spring orgy of flowers is winding down. Some spring bulbs flashed for just a few days and were gone. But it didn’t really matter because they were replaced by something else interesting. Summer’s flowers seem to come at a… Read More »from spring into summer
Sunday I went down to San Diego’s annual Artwalk streetfair down by the cool waterfront in the Little Italy neighborhood. This has been a seriously bipolar spring, alternating chilly periods with intensely hot ones. This weekend was one of the… Read More »jacaranda
A couple posts ago I mentioned dichelostemma blooming in the garden and I was thinking that they were probably also blooming wild in the natural spaces around me. I took a lunchtime walk through one of the semi-wild areas on… Read More »into the wild