A two-fer!
One grapevine leaf, two sets of stinkbug eggs.
Now, in a plastic bag in the trash.
Also, for what it’s worth, I got this insect identifier app a few weeks ago, and it is…
Oh, the rabbit holes down which I go.
Of late, I've been attempting to make my own bitters. It has been rather easy to make the initial one-ingredient extractions. Taking things to the next…
I love the night sounds of Maryland's High Summer! The cicadas, crickets and katydids.
Last night, in order to soak up as much of these sounds while I could, I spent a few hours…
Other than my pool-chlorine saturated youth, wherein the Thunder Hill neighborhood pool served as playground, babysitter and launchpad for endless underwater adventures as I cosplayed--best I could with my superball serving as a…
An impromptu day trip to Rehoboth Beach yielded good news and bad news.
The bad news first: not a soul was in the water more than to their ankles. Jelly fish. I thought, foolishly,…
If you're in the Maryland-ish area and have experienced a number of Big Summer Maryland Rains in the last couple-few weeks, you're probably also seeing a lot of mushrooms pop all over the…
Finally! After many attempts, over quite a few years, to create a toad house, I finally have a resident. Or at least a visitor.
While I've cobbled together many large rocks, planks and whatnot…
Squishing Colorado potato beetles and larvae by hand.
Dumping slugs and tomato hornworm caterpillars in buckets of water.
Putting the iridescent, invasive jumping worms (these things are DEVASTATING for your soil's health) in containers to…
What critter might have pooped this poop? With little pebbles in it? The original shape is somewhat mangled by rain and prodding sticks.
Zone 7b.
Left on a driveway.
Lasting for 10 days or more with…
I find it mentally grueling to get motivated to get to my garden plot. Once there, I can be there for hours. No problem.
But growing cucumbers for the first time has me motivated…
While I delight in this time of year, when the earth warms more and more by the day, and the much-missed green comes out in full force, I lament to inform you (those…
The hubris I have experienced in believing I could contain the yard weeds -- by dint of labor and pulling them by the roots, a few focused chemical applications and sheer determination --…