Gaia Garden

I don't normally blog about political issues here. Not because I don't care about political issues, but because I don't want thi...

Earlier today, in writing my review of Our Life in Gardens by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd, I came upon a passage I had underlined that I w...

For 40 years or so, I've been interested in family history. Like most people, I started out collecting names and dates and places, birth...

I like to share good books when I come across ones that seem particularly special to me, and I've suddenly got three books that meet my ...

Yesterday was the solstice. It was a busy day - being Fathers' Day, we had hosted a family steak cookout in the afternoon - but, by even...

It's been a successful day, as Prairiewolf likes to say, because I've learned something new. In reading our local paper this afterno...

Two special guests visited the yard today: a green tiger beetle and a little blue heron. Best of all, both let me photograph them! I was hea...

Yesterday felt like Bug Day. I walked outside in the morning and spied this guy, just sitting quietly on the porch floor. I've seen phot...

Glancing over my blog entries earlier this spring, I was glad to see that my entry on burning our front prairie had actually made it from th...

Nothing fancy, but I just had to share that I picked almost 2 cups of big, fat, juicy, tasty blueberries from our bushes this morning. We...

I can't believe that I've let so much time lapse since I last posted. It's been a busy time, but 6 weeks of "down time...

Suddenly the temperatures appear to have decided they're tired of dropping below freezing. Not to be outdone, the soaking spring rains h...

Another new species for the property! While I was talking on the phone with my mother this morning, I noticed a "new" bird in the ...

I am wanting to give our acreage a name. Somehow it feels like naming this little area will help solidify its identity as a particular spot ...

Along with (apparently) 107 other folks in Sedgwick County, we took advantage of light winds last Wednesday to burn our grassland. Not all o...

Last night, Prairiewolf and I attended an interesting lecture at Dyck Arboretum on the reintroduction of the black-footed ferrets (an endang...

I have been seduced...by a pair of blue pansies and a fragrant, lavendar and yellow viola. For years I have been staunchly anti-annual. ...

Well, you can't say that he doesn't try! I've mentioned that Ranger hasn't mastered bird hunting yet, much to my relief. It...

Okay, the title is a little misleading. As long as Ranger gets to spend massive quantities of time outside, he's basically leaving elect...

One of the most fascinating things to watch during a winter storm is the behavior of the birds. Given the number that showed up at my feeder...