No. Not that kind of “grass”. Real grass, like comes on a lawn – or did before last summer’s smoking hot heat and lack of rainfall. Grass on almost every lawn now has brown patches and scads wire grass, which doesn’t mind drought conditions or intense heat. Driving through our neighborhood, lawns look like war zones – except for lawns that have zoysia grass. They look just fine because zoysia … [Read more...]

We had two families of bluebirds to visit our yard, bird houses, and feeders this year – one in the front yard and one in the back yard. Early on, they settled squatters rights with spirited battles. I don’t know how many babies were actually produced between the two sets of parents, but I think a lot. I am now seeing juvenile birds at all the feeders and in the bird baths. While I fed them … [Read more...]