Coquina the doglet does a good job of making the yard less turkey-friendly. She came tearing out of the house the other afternoon, startling a dozen or so, and big […]

The remnants of Murricane Michael blew by us, and give us rain. Our drought is now fully over. After half-inch monthly rain totals in July and August, September relented and […]

Early October. The browns and tans are moving in. Phragmites panicles are passing from purple to maroon to brown. Tan will arrive later, as winter rains leach color from these […]

A, as has been said, is for Aleatory. Aleatory is a ten-dollar word for “random”. Here’s a definition: “Depending on the throw of dice or on chance; random. Relating to […]

Hmmm…the last post was June. It’s October now. The summer was such a busy, vistor-filled jumble that the tompostpile was left aside. Perhaps the ‘pile is going to wake from […]