The Science Behind Nature - in Layperson Speak
(Updated Aug 2018) Acquaintances of ours were over at our house the other night and when they asked if we wanted to see a photo of the rattlesnake they found on their property, I thought to myself ‘they probably killed it.’ Yep, they did. It was a good 4-plus feet long, so likely had lived many …
Continue Reading about Some Truths about Rattlesnakes (and myth debunking)
I read an article in a small newspaper (Coast News in Encinitas) about spiders and wrote the author thanking her. It quoted her children’s favorite book, Charlotte’s Web, which happens to be my favorite childhood book, and left me a permanent fondness for spiders and pigs. None in the author’s …
2016 Follow-up - If you can't bring your cats inside permanently - please consider this Birds Be Safe Collar -A recent United States-based scientific study has shown that Birdsbesafe® cat collar covers projected an average reduction of 87% birds captured annually. While vacationing in British …
When we moved into our Southern California home in September 2008 the grass was dead or dying – a great opportunity to convert most of the lawn to native or drought resistant landscaping, which we also did at our San Diego home. We’re going on three years now after planting, and the landscape is …
Continue Reading about Our Conversion to Low Water Landscaping
