Seasons in the Valley + Furry Gnome's Adventures

I've been riding around town a fair bit, though the weather has remained cool, often with a strong breeze either off the bay or offshore...

The blooms are unfolding fast here and I wanted to share a few last garden photos before moving on to other things. It's the Peonies and...

Suddenly, the season for blooming flowers has arrived.  Yes, we've had a sequence of flowers already over the past 6 weeks, but now we h...

Trees are one of the things I observe a lot in the spring, perhaps more than all the flowers we're seeing bloom.  Trees are like a backd...

Celebrations of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee have been underway in the UK this weekend, and I'm glad to admit I'm a royalist.  I...

There's just too much going on around here to leave me with time for blogging as much as I'd like. Now that it's warmer weather ...

Mrs. F.G. has been out in the garden hour after hour, day after day.  She grew what seem like thousands of plants from seed and bought more ...