Breathing Treatment

We had a storm through last week which got the cold and wet season under way.  Earlier rain in September and October totaled close to an inc...

19 Jul 0.43" 20 Jul 0.20" There's probably some more rain in the near future, but I thought I would note that over a half i...

I was admiring the fog on my Cercis occidentalis When I noticed some leaf damage and a critter. Who's been eating my Cercis? Have some m...

I suspect that the raccoons are to blame for the immense piles of scat that have accumulated on top of my patch of Erigeron glaucus (Seaside...

This is a Palo Verde tree in Phoenix, Arizona (Parkinsonia or Cercidium species). In that area these trees are planted all over and appear ...

On 9-Jun I received 0.08" of rain in my back yard for a season total of  9.29" of rain.  Once again, this is a totally normal numb...

We had a surprising amount of rain yesterday and overnight at my house: 0.7" and then a bit more on the following day.  This is quite l...

I predicted that we were done with rain for the year, but I was wrong. An overnight and early a.m. Storm gave us another 0.1" for a tot...

I've received 8.35" of rain in my back yard this year.  Since I have a few years worth of data on rainfall in my back yard, and dec...

0.1" of rain fell on the night of the 7th in my back yard which brought the season total to 8.35".  Since I think that this is the...

California Native Plant Week (CNPW) is upon us, but it always seems like it's late to me.  In northern California where winter seems to...

But they will hop right over the screen....Oh. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

What's not to like? Brazilian pepper, wall to wall Euphorbia terracina, and mustard forests. Aside from that it's a nice view. - Pos...

Here's an interesting sign. With all that mustard, one wonders how they define restoration. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone