Today was one of those miraculous Southern Californian days when the air was very fresh and clear after last night's (welcome) rain: jus...

If a scooter had a major, what would it be?  It's getting closer and closer to Commencement time, and students can be seen carrying pack...

and, right on cue, after I wrote yesterday that the black walnut is also the Owl Pelleting tree, what do I find underneath it today but a fr...

We have one tree that arborists can seemingly never agree about: the majority view is that it's a black walnut, but occasionally we'...

My poster this time was a little better in the conception than the execution - but huge fun to work on it, even if I wished that I'd sta...

Visual evidence of how greenery is taking over parts of our yard - plus all the poppy seeds that I threw around with energetic enthusiasm.  ...

Moth has always been a keen baseball fan, so she's delighted to be back watching the Boys in Blue.  They have some particularly fetching...