It’s been just about a year since we planted our front yard native garden. During the winter, the plants looked like they weren’t going to make it. But with the…
Grass to Native Garden – Last Day
Today we got to see the fruits of our planning effort. When setting out the plants we bought yesterday, we realized we needed a few more to fill out the…
Grass to Native Garden – Day 3
The title says Day 3, but it’s really been 3 weeks since the last work was done. These things take time. Actually, before today, Kenny felt that there might be…
Grass to Native Garden – Day 2
If you are following along, this is day 2 of transforming a grass lawn into a native Southern California garden. Today was about removing soil to get ready for sheet…
Grass to Native Garden – Day 1
Considering we live in Southern California and our water situation is getting tight, I thought it might be a good idea to look into replacing our small front lawn with…
Revisting Robert Edwards
From January 25, 1998 to April 11, 1990, I went to a little studio at 5554 Mammoth Ave. in Sherman Oaks, CA once every 2 weeks or so to have…
You Are All I’ll Ever Need
I have had the good fortune to have wonderful in-laws. Not only were they were helpful and supportive without being intrusive in any way, they set an excellent example for…
Let Me Go
There are probably few things as painful as the un-mutual end of a relationship. I s’pose you could say that things play out the way they’re meant to, but that…
Mom
Today would have been her 90th birthday. We lost her a little more than 2 weeks ago – April 21, 2016. I was holding her hand. I miss her terribly.…
Accompanying
My daughter is about to turn 18 in a couple of days. Shaking my head in disbelief – time is such a seemingly elastic thing. And because it is the…