Attack of the Freakish Foliage
As of next week or so, we’ll be celebrating the seventeenth anniversary of moving into our house, our neighbourhood, and this place we call home. Seventeen years is all at once a short blip and a really long time. It sometimes seems like we’ve both lived here forever and also…
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…
Caged Flame
It was Saturday afternoon and for the first time in a week there was nary a spot of snow in my backyard. We had some pork loin marinating in the refrigerator and my wife was all “I was just going to cook it in the oven but if it’s nice…