#100HappyDays: Sweet peas
Sweet peas are as sweet as they look–super fragrant! (In fact, so fragrant that those of us with smell sensitivity keep them …
#100HappyDays: Transplants
Clockwise from the top left: African Daisies in the big round pot, zucchini, jalapeno, mystery tomato, Japanese maple. Bottom row: A bunch …
#100HappyDays: If loving a wheelbarrow is wrong…
We picked up this wheelbarrow at Costco for $20 less than the local home improvement stores. Woot. Sometimes, it’s the little things …
Saying farewell to the Boeing Stearman
1943 Boeing Stearman N2S-5 On an unusually warm February afternoon, I climbed in the big yellow biplane for the last time. I …
Spring joy in photos
Blooms from a flowering pear tree, which while beautiful, smells, ahem, indecently musty. If you’re like me (and most of the people …
Fly Girl in Training: Knocking the rust off
On an extended downwind looking out at downtown Sacramento. I looked at my logbook in horror. No, that can’t be right. Did …
A grateful heart: The smell of rain
Today’s Sacramento rain storm even made the rocks pretty. Our new moss rock boulders came alive with color today. Loamy? Earthy? Plain …
Cracking the night away at the Jesuit High School Crab Feed
2014 Jesuit High School Booster Crab Feed: Enjoying good food for a great cause I scanned the auditorium, trying not to pass …
Project Green Thumbs: Prune shaming
One of the “heavenly bamboo” nandina plants which recently took up residence in our yard and will need some pruning at some …
6 tips for keeping mosquitoes away from your yard
Okay, if mosquitoes did suck fat, this post might be on cultivation rather than prevention, I cannot lie. I slapped our landscape …