Gaia Garden

It's the time of year when it seems necessary to look back over the past year, and then right to look ahead towards the year to come.  A...

Well, the pathology report came back yesterday.  Blue's intestinal mass was diagnosed as leiomyosarcoma.  The surgeon attempted to be up...

It's the time of year when I switch from being unable to keep my eyes (and camera) off foliage, flowers, and insects to the time of year...

Just a little over a year ago, I brought home a 16 month old German shepherd male that I'd found through a classified ad in the paper.  ...

In the latest issue of onearth (Winter 2011/2012, p. 64), Jill Sisson Quinn began an essay with the the lines, "It was forbidden to...

Now that our children are fully launched into self-reliant adulthood (and there are no grandchildren on the horizon), we've starte...

I've been an absent blogger...and I apologize. Not surprisingly, I've got many, many photos to share...because I've been busy.....

After a summer like this one, there are times when I am simply amazed that any plants survived. When I find plants that have thrived, they ...

I'm feeling unsettled and on edge these days. The horrible, blast furnace heat of the summer is gone, but the drought remains. I don...

[I've never done this before, but the word intrigued me, so I'm giving it a try. Garden Walk, Garden Talk has a Word 4 Wednesday i...

Two frosts now, but my aromatic asters are still going strong. (I LOVE native plants!!!) I've been taking photos of many of the insects...

Last night I attended a focus group about climate change, presented by a group based at K-State. We had a great moderator, a retired politi...

In honor of The Big Year , a surprisingly good movie that Greg and I went to see last Friday, I thought I'd post a few bird shots from 2...