Breathing Treatment

Threatening storms decided not to give us much more rain, and we picked up only 1/100th of an inch over the course of a couple days.

Recently, I linked to a BBC article that quantified the amount of water embodied in production of a variety of goods (hidden or embedded wa...

Juli and I went on a garden tour sponsored by the South Coast chapter of the California Native Plant Society in Palos Verdes Estates last we...

I was in the desert briefly and took these photos .

On 4/19 we had 0.05" of rain. I held off reporting this rainfall since two more days of rain were predicted. However, despite a littl...

I went backpacking with the Boy Scouts to Point Dume back in March. I'm happy to report that the wildflowers were magnificent! There ...

An article that I read today on BBC News summarizes a report by Engineering the Future alliance of professional engineering bodies which dis...

Margaret's mallow is getting large! She writes that the trash can is in view because of some nearby cleanup.

LA Team Effort is the blog site that serves as community outreach and a focal point for to City of LA's effort to publicize best practi...

What a surprise to get 3/4 inch of rain last night! I expected mild showers, not the at times torrential rain that we actually got. Anothe...

Mike Letteriello was at the CNPS meeting last Monday and invited all to an open house at Prisk Elementary School in Long Beach where they ha...

This is the season for native blooms and my back yard is no exception. The only non-native pictured here. This is lovage which has reseeded...

The wild flowers were very nice at the SBBG. Unfortunately this was the last photo I tool with my phone before the battery died unexpectedly...