For those of you in real winter climates, please humor this Californian who went photo crazy in the garden the other morning when it got all the way down to 24. Some of you only wish it might get up to 24. If crunching across the frozen grass is no rare sensory treat that gets[...]
I have been in love with grasses for a long time. I can pinpoint the day, more than 25 years ago, with a botanist at Ring Mountain Nature Conservancy Preserve, where I wondered why these grasses she was so keen on having me document where not garden plants. I have learned a lot, a whole[...]
Every year I garden in Northern California I am dumbstruck in November. I do not have the words to describe what season this is. I put together a hasty bouquet yesterday while tidying up my home office for a client meeting in hopes that some flowers might distract from the piles of books, files, and[...]
When I went looking for fall color in my garden, I did not expect to see a red hole into another universe. In fact, I did realize it was there until I contemplated my original picture (to follow at the end). The great master of black and white photography, Ansel Adams learned to pre-visualize his[...]
There is still time to send in your photos for this months contest. The theme is Abundant Harvest which we kicked off with a smorgasbord of photos, all of which are interpretations of the theme. Rules and prizes in the October 5 post. I should remind our readers that the photos do not have to[...]