Late to the Garden Party

We woke up to fog this morning - not at our house but covering the harbor below like a blanket.  It gave the harbor a surreal aspect. To...

No, I didn't create a vase using silk or plastic flowers.  The "faux orchids" of the title refer to the flowers of Bauhinia x ...

I was eating lunch when a winged visitor swooped by the living room window, landing in the mimosa tree adjacent to our backyard patio.  I ra...

I had the devil of a time getting half-way decent photos of the garden for this month's wide shots post.  It seemed that, whether I took...

Camellia sasanqua and Tagetes lemmonii are still blooming in my garden and there are other odds and ends flowering as well but I decided t...

In late September, we had our remaining sod removed.  Afterwards, my husband and I began what turned out to be a longer and more difficult p...

Despite another spike in our daytime temperatures and Santa Ana winds that made the air so dry I've felt as though I was undergoing mumm...