Gaia Garden

"I saw a spider sign her web today." That's the line that's been singing in my head ever since yesterday morning, wh...

Our nearby little community of Clearwater, Kansas, had its annual Fall Festival a couple weeks ago. The weather was lousy, but turnout seem...

Well, we've gone and done it again. Our household has increased by one - this time a sweetheart of a little English setter puppy whom we...

I don't normally write about political stuff in my blog, but I have to put up some interesting comparisons tonight. Sarah Palin, McCain...

It's allergy season. There's pollen everywhere. The goldenrod is blooming.... But WAIT!!!! Is it really goldenrod that is causing th...

Sometimes I just feel so lucky to be who I am, living where I am, and today is one of those days. (At least, it is now that I've gotten ...

I've let myself be lulled by cooler than normal temperatures. How can something so pleasant have led to potential disaster? See, because...

I'm feeling grinchy this morning. It was a wonderfully cool morning when I went out to get the paper, but it's starting to heat up a...

I thought that I was pretty much done for the summer with new milkweed finds in our yard...but I find that I was wrong. Last week I b...

We've got a new family member! His name is Ranger (based on the character from Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series), he's a...

An interesting day in the vegetable garden..... For various reasons, I hadn't really been paying much attention to the garden for the la...

After picking another 2 dozen or so black blister beetles off my tomatoes again this morning (the photo to the left has both black blister b...

It's been so busy lately that I haven't been blogging much. For that matter, lately it seems that I'm just not going outside mu...

I saw this quote on a stepping stone and it captured my fancy. Unfortunately, the stepping stone was resin, which I dislike, so I didn'...

I wish I could make up my mind. Some mornings I come back from my walk-about fully energized and excited, sure that I've seen yet anoth...

Reading the paper, believe it or not, makes me happy. Not necessarily the news that I get from reading it, but the simple fact that I have ...

Chock one up to...organic gardening? ...lazy gardening? ...letting nature take the lead? ...all of the above? About a month ago I noticed a ...

As I went out to empty my coffee grounds this morning (a daily ritual, fertilizing the blueberries or the roses), several small things broug...

Because both milkweeds and the insects that inhabit them interest me so much, I tend to take a fair number of photos of all of them. I'v...

For some reason, I'm enamored with milkweeds. It probably started with their cachet as food for the caterpillars of monarch butterflies....