Gaia Garden

Two days ago, as I came back into the house after dumping my coffee grounds in the garden, I noticed a small black and white wasp sitting on...

Watching for caterpillars as closely as I've been doing this summer, I noticed an odd phenomenon on the milkweeds about a week ago. ...

After carefully watching my larval plants for several months (which felt like years!), I'm finally seeing caterpillars on them.  The...

I'm not normally the sort of gardener who obsesses over clashing colors in my flower beds.  In fact, I'm rather an "anything go...

Reading a magazine about blogging earlier this week, I tried to remember exactly why I began Gaia Garden .  Was it simply to share the photo...

What do you think about while you weed? As relaxing and enjoyable as I find it to weed, you'd think I'd be thinking elevated, beau...

As I sit down to write a new blog post - the first in many months - the joyful screams of laughter coming from our grandson, Connor, are ri...

Okay, this is a warning.  I am going to sound a little "Woo-woo" in this post.  I can't help that because sometimes that's...

Why do you garden? If you're like me at all (and I suspect that many gardeners are), you probably have several reasons you garden - se...

As I walked down the driveway last week, I saw some trash caught along the fenceline.  It irritated me a bit, but it's a part of moder...

(Note:  this isn't a gardening post!) How much is too much? My mother-in-law passed along several issues of Architectural Digest l...

Sometimes people really depress me. Each summer I volunteer to staff our Extension HotLine for one afternoon a week.  When it's good, ...

Three days ago, I took a photo of this newly blooming sunflower that had come up by the corner of our house.  Something had already eaten ho...

For all of you birders out there, I have a question:  can you identify this bird?  From its behavior, I think it was quite young - there w...

Following the trail that serendipity was showing me, I convinced Greg to go with me to see the new movie, Samsara , on Friday night.  The da...

"Having It All."  What does the phrase mean to you?  Seriously.  Stop a minute and examine what your personal "all" woul...

I can't remember why I ordered The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder.  I'm sure I must have come across a recommendation to read ...