I seem to have developed a thing for trying to save scrawny trees. When I had such a notion last spring, near where I work at SF’s Civic Center, it met an ignoble end.
Sometime earlier this summer there was a fire in the old campground out on the former naval air station, where I walk the pups. The kids sometimes party [...]
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Scorched Flora & Snatched Fauna
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, pets, photography, walking on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A Big Blow
Posted in gardening, life, nature, photography on October 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mrs. Ombud and I were watching a movie (Little Fish, I think) when the phone rang. We don’t always pick up during a movie, figuring they’ll leave a message if it’s important, but when I heard my next door neighbor’s voice I hit pause and got the phone. He was talking about some large branch that [...]
the list
Posted in cooking, gardening on October 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’ve done exhaustive research on this.
A Follow-up on Several Fronts
Posted in animals, cooking, e-scrapbook, gardening, nature, pets, photography on September 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
First, the pears. I’m rather amazed at how reluctant these pears are to ripen. This picture was taken in early September, and you can see how green they remain:
Various and Asundry and Asides on a Sunday
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, pets, photography on August 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We’re getting ready to leave town, which means my life is once again a half-baked scramble to do a to-do list before it to-does to me.
Looking Out My Backdoor
Posted in birding, gardening, music, nature, photography on July 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Do you remember Creedence Clearwater Revival? Have you heard “Looking Out My Backdoor“? I’ve been reminded of the song recently, while out on our back porch.
An amphibious interlude
Posted in animals, gardening, nature on May 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Remember the spoof on Superman at the beginning of the cartoon show “Underdog”?
“What’s that in the sky!?” “It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane!” “It’s a frog!”
A frog?
A nourishing notion, but now it’s gone
Posted in commute, gardening, nature, walking on April 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Earlier this week I passed by three small, slender trees struggling to survive on Golden Gate avenue and, with the oncoming summer dry season in mind, I thought, maybe a few times this summer I’ll put a water jug in my pack and come out here to try and keep these poor guys going.
A bit blooming late, but here, nonetheless
Posted in gardening, nature, photography, walking on March 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve meant to do this for weeks. The magnolias are in bloom, and I have a new camera; what’s the hold up?
Feathered foes and friends
Posted in animals, birding, dogs, gardening, thoughts on November 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
We have numerous flowering plants and a half dozen or so trees in our long thin backyard, so that it’s green and leafy for most of the year. As such, we get a lot of birds stopping by. Once, just as I flung a rawhide chew toy off the back deck while our Ernie boy [...]
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