Toon's Tunes

They love the oranges, these squirrels. They run across the grass outside my home-office window, carrying fruit that must weigh as much as ...

Yesterday evening, I planted two clematis jackmanii: one next to the dead tree near the creek, with the idea that the tree provides a natura...

When I was a kid, early-teens, it was listening to Radio North Sea, Radio Caroline (when it was on the air), Radio Luxembourg, hidden away i...

Today, Easter Sunday, in California but with thoughts all-over-the-place. Jade, in New York. Childhood and family in England. My sister Judi...

The first nastursiums have hatched; two palm-like leaves unfurling in the hanging baskets. Sweet peas, thin and lime green, seem to have gro...

Apricot Angel , around edges of kitchen flower garden. It will grow 18" high. Three plantings from one 9$ pot! Swirling Spider  in th...

When the temperature is a sunny 75 degrees farenheit and yet-another sprinkler turns into a fountain when you're standing right over it,...

 The reason I went to the Shenandoah Valley was to visit the Amador Flower Farm and Nursery. Discovered them last week, while searching onl...

A beautiful, spring, Saturday morning, and I'd planned a trip to the daylily farm just outside Plymouth. It's a small town in the ...

Oranges, of course! He carried it from under the orange tree, across the lawn to shelter of the apple tree, sat there, peeled it, spat ou...

Petunias, allysum, lobelia plantlets, plus nastursium seeds. And some other seeds. Forgot already. Maybe black-eye susan vine? Have to wait ...

Sunday-in-the-garden was severely truncated because of an I-ran-over-my-iPhone-with-my-truck-after-it-fell-out-of-stupid-new-holder incident...

We have assembled all of the bookcases! It was quite a project. Now we have to fix them to the walls (tricky), put in the shelves (easy), a...

Yesterday evening, I potted-up four of the six large cymbidium orchids that I found in the bargain grocery store around the corner. Then I ...

They look like bay leaves and they smell like bay leaves. But is it a Bay Laurel ( Laurus nobilis ), or a California Bay Laurel ( Umbellular...

I spent all weekend working on the front border. It was all compressed and full of weeds. Had to dig through that top layer of clay, becau...

The room on the right as you enter the house will be "the library". I like the sound of that. It's walls are painted a strang...

Yesterday afternoon, I was certain I'd go with the orange (bottom right). This morning, I'm back to the "Tate Olive", bott...

Bedroom wall. Decisions... Took oranges from the painting that will go in the bathroom, but I didn't like them when they were on the wa...

Spent all weekend painting (half of) the living room. It's a beautiful satin, deep, grey.  Two walls are this colour: the other two, wh...