sermon for a bird

Cherries are an early Christmas present in the antipodes - their colour is a cheer - their sweetness something between a fruit and ...

British sports journo Simon Barnes also writes about birds. From his "How to be a Bad Birdwatcher", I learnt two cardinal (n...

Well, it could be that our dead bird was not our bird. A day after finding the body I notice that there is still bird activity in th...

Ten years of drought stunted our trees. But since the rains came the garden has put on growth and green. The fruit trees in particu...

   If you are like me... you read everywhere.  You like to have a book to hand, in fact you  like to have a book in your hand. ...

Three days in a row the mercury edged toward 30 and we turned the ceiling fans on for the first time this season. We drank iced c...

Something besides good soil and seed is living in the mini greenhouse.  My seed starter is a common piece of garden equipment a...