The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: plant

  • Trees Can Die of a Heart Attack

    Added to my list entitled “I Never Thought of That” is this poster, below. I saw it at a ranger station while traveling through Oregon, and thought it was a message worth spreading. Carving your initials into a tree seems so romantic. Young love, immortalized. B.A. + C.L. with a heart around it. People will…

  • I Made This!

    After so many years in Florida, I have an aversion to yardwork. To me, gardening means sweating, getting a sunburn, and encountering fire ants, snakes, scorpions, and spiders the size of your hand that can rear up and hiss. Yardwork, to me, is the stuff of nightmares. But now I live in the Pacific Northwest,…

  • Old MacLandlord had a Farm

    I woke up the other day to strange sounds emanating from the back yard. I looked out the window and there was my landlady’s son, tearing up what little grass our dogs hadn’t already torn up for him. Turns out that we’re going to have a garden. A really large garden. I was told I…