Gaia Garden

Just for kicks and giggles, I went around the yard yesterday and took a few photos which I thought I'd share.  Nothing particularly exci...

It has amazed me how many bird deformities I've seen in our yard over the last 8 years.  Some I've shared on this blog.  Mainly beak...

We interrupt the "Tolerating the Uglies" series to bring you this news flash:  Today was an absolutely perfect day for a prairie b...

Probably the hardest lesson I've learned in gardening here is to tolerate the uglies caused by blister beetles. Our vegetable garden w...

I think one of the most important concepts in healthy gardening is also one of the simplest.  Do YOU always look camera-ready??!  I highly s...

Have you ever run across a little mud pot, perfectly formed, about the size of a small marble, stuck to a twig or a rock or something else r...

I've been cleaning out old files recently and I ran across an article from February 1, 1990, that I had pulled out of Family Circle mag...

I'm starting the process of going through the photos from 2014, the ones that I didn't have time to edit or identify during gardenin...

Do you keep a yard list of the birds you see each year? We do.  We've found it's a fun way to keep our eyes peeled for the unusual...

From grasshopper-eating turtles to omnipresent praying mantises, there were so many interesting sightings in the yard and gardens this year ...