bomb-sniffing petunias?
Thanks to She Who Would Not Want To Be Named for sending me a link to a really interesting story in yesterday’s New York Times: Plants have been engineered through the dark arts of gene splicing to...
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After having lived without a cellphone for the last two centuries I finally took the leap. Not only did I get a cellphone, I got a smart phone. The iPhones have been all the rage for a while, but I...
View Articlei won, i won!
After two rounds of judging it’s now official. My image of a chalk dudleya (Dudleya pulverulenta) is the winner in a contest looking for an image to use to promote the upcoming California Native Plant...
View Articlefailed eclipse photos
Were you under the path for Sunday’s annular eclipse? Or at least some place where you could get a decent partial eclipse? I was up in northern San Diego County, doing family stuff. I had a reasonable...
View Articlehigh-res camera in the october garden
Is a camera with more megapixels better? In our bigger is better culture your might be inclined to think so, but for everyday use more could be serious overkill. Here’s a quick look at some of what a...
View Articlea cliché i happen to like
How can you pick out a Californian from within a brig crowd? Just wait for a rainy day and see which one heads for the door to look at the amazing stuff falling from the sky. We don’t see much of the...
View Articlesunburn–the good kind
Until a couple weeks ago I hadn’t bought any art or photo books this year. In today’s online age something really has to speak to me for me to want to make space for it at home in tangible, doorstop...
View Articlenative plant-themed fabric and giftwrap
I’ve been playing. In the darkness of late December I started to think about spring and the plants and flowers that were just a few months away. I’d recently started spending some time at the...
View Articlephotos for a garden tour
This will be my second year helping out with the photography for the spring native garden tour of the San Diego CNPS chapter. Last year I supplied a few of the images, but I mostly helped editing...
View Article2014: a year in pictures
It’s only recently that I’ve gotten back to posting, and there’s close to a year’s worth of stuff that might have been blog-worthy. Here’s a short, redacted list of 2014 highlights: All Year Some...
View Articlephotos for a garden tour
This will be my second year helping out with the photography for the spring native garden tour of the San Diego CNPS chapter. Last year I supplied a few of the images, but I mostly helped editing...
View Article2014: a year in pictures
It’s only recently that I’ve gotten back to posting, and there’s close to a year’s worth of stuff that might have been blog-worthy. Here’s a short, redacted list of 2014 highlights: All Year Some...
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