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An Ode to Dirt

In between rainstorms, I just took the dog for a walk and it is so clean and fresh outside – it smells like dirt! Dirt has always been important to me.  Dirt is being outdoors. Dirt is gardening, and...

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My Aging Lavender

As lavender bushes get older, they get leggy, a quality that is desirable in supermodels but not in plants.  The plants get woody, also. Woody and leggy are roughly the same idea: most of each branch...

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Albert Camus, Your Listing Agent

A recent bulk mailing from a local realtor provided a gorgeous picture of a stream bank in autumn and a lovely quote, “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” The quote is by … Albert...

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Mushroom Wisdom

These fresh pink mushrooms are young and naive. This old mushroom has a lot to teach them. Although damaged and scarred, it remains fully open. Tagged: aging, gardening, miushrooms, musings, nature,...

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Underwater Sunset

Sunset in the underwater world! As glimpsed at East Beach, Santa Barbara, CA, Jan 2013 Tagged: beach, clouds, East Beach, nature, ocean, photography, santa barbara ca, sunset

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Uphill and Downhill Ocean

Ocean running downhill. Sea wall. Ocean running uphill. Tagged: beach, East Beach, nature, ocean, photography, santa barbara ca, sunset

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Cuteness in Seal Form

Here is a baby harbor seal, once injured and nursed back to health by a Santa Barbara, California, rescue group. When able to fend for himself, he will be returned to the nearby ocean. And not a minute...

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An Ode to Dried Mud

To me it is splendid that mud dries the way it does because of its physics and chemistry. And as it dries it briefly preserves the scant piece of Earth history to which it was witness. Characteristic...

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Calling All Spider Afficionados

For many years I feared spiders but once I became a gardener I became quite fond of them – provided they do not get toooo close. My garden is filled with a really interesting spider and I ‘d like to...

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