Backyard: Travel by Flower
It’s Travel Tuesday, and even tho I cannot go anywhere I have been plunging plugs of soil from the yard as I deal with some visitors from Europe who have overstayed their welcome. Dandelions: the two most commonplace species worldwide, T. officinale (the common dandelion) and T. erythrospermum (the red-seeded…
Backyard: Blogging (a How-to Guide)
As spring approaches, and the snow melts into a nurturing moisture that slowly starts to restore the greens to the grass and the leaves to the trees in my little suburban backyard, I find myself looking for excuses to sit in the weak spring sunshine and do those activities I…
Suburban Fire Craft (Part Two)
Back in early March I introduced my readers to my simmering big plans to upgrade my backyard fire pit set up. For years we’ve not made campfires in our backyard a priority, mostly because we could go camping any time we wanted and evenings in the city were otherwise filled…
Suburban Fire Craft (Part One)
I have been making big plans for how I’m going to spend another summer of limited travel and quasi-lockdown in my little suburban backyard. See, for at least five years we’ve had a small fire bowl set up in our yard. It has served the purpose of gathering friends and…