Flipped-out spider web.
Did the spider that wove this strange web outside one of my dining room windows get into somebody’s stash?
Sweet Sixteen
Sunset calls its climate zone 16 "one of Northern California's finest horticultural climates." What's my excuse?
On Top
All this new stuff goes on top
turn it over, turn it over
wait and water down
from the dark bottom
turn it inside out
let it spread through
Sift down even
Watch it sprout.
A mind like compost.
— Gary Snyder
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ABOUT THE BAY
As it's evolved, this site has increasingly focused on vita plantae in the San Francisco Bay Area, so I've rejiggered this blog to reflect that. You will still find plenty of more general posts on life by the bay. Visit the site home or try one of these:
And you can contact me here.
As it's evolved, this site has increasingly focused on vita plantae in the San Francisco Bay Area, so I've rejiggered this blog to reflect that. You will still find plenty of more general posts on life by the bay. Visit the site home or try one of these:
And you can contact me here.
applejack Araucaria heterophylla (Norfolk Pine) artemisia Artemisia douglasiana (Mugwort) Asclepius cancellata (Wild Cotton) Atriplex leucophylla (Beach Salt Bush) biomes bioregions bitters Brown-Headed Cowbird brugmansia Buddha Tree Butterknife Tree Calandrinia spectabilis Camissonia cheiranthifolia (Beach Primrose) campari cherries chickadee civic center climate cocktails crabapple Cunonia capensis Cunonia capensis (Butterknife Tree) Datura wrightii (Sacred Datura) deer dirt drought ducks early girl tomatoes euphorbia featured Ficus religiosa Fraxinus latifoloa (Oregon Ash) ginger beeer groundhog Grüss an Aachen health herbs hummingbird Iochroma coccinea jack-o-lantern jasmine kittens lemons limes Malva assurgentiflora (Island Mallow) markets meta Mimulus aurantiacus (Sticky Monkeyflower) mole Monardella villosa (Coyote Mint) natives norfolk pine orange juice papaver Papaver glaucum (tulip poppy) Pawtucket persimmons pisco Plain Titmouse Plantago subnuda (Tall Coastal Plaintain) plums pool poppy Protasparagus densiflorus 'Meyeri' (foxtail asparagus fern) Ramnus California (California Coffeeberry) Rhode Island rose roses Salvia melliflora (Black Sage) Salvia spathacea (Hummingbird Sage) Sambucus nigra (Blue Elderberry) Scrophularia california (California Bee Plant) seeds Slater Mill snails spurge star jasmine Stipa arundinacea (New Zealand Wind Grass) Stipa pulchra (Purple Needlegrass) Tanecetum parthenium aureum (Golden Feverfew) the cocktail garden unknown weed vermouth vineyards wall webwork
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