Beauty Under The Underbrush — Nature’s Guy Discovery
I cut away some junk underbrush (privet bushes) and found this beauty. I’m lichen it a lot!
http://cyranowriter.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/remove-garbage-revolutionary-improverse-haiku/

I cut away some junk underbrush (privet bushes) and found this beauty. I’m lichen it a lot!
http://cyranowriter.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/remove-garbage-revolutionary-improverse-haiku/

The old couple’s peach tree up on Mowbray Mountain deep down in Tennessee was so overloaded that a giant limb split off the trunk and crashed to the garden floor. That still left more than two-thirds of the tree that they had planted intact and covered with delicious freestone fruit. A Good Fruit Trade Our…
Identifying plants — especially native ones — can be a somewhat difficult process, especially if you’ve moved (as I have) to a bio-zone different from where you’ve lived before. I was talking about this issue with my brother Gene, out in Washington State. He’s gotten very good at identifying native plants on Vashon Island, where…
I recently trimmed away junk trees (privet trees) so I could see the Eastern Redbuds in my back yard more clearly. It taught me a valuable lesson: https://cyranowriter.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/trim-away-the-garbage-to-see-beauty-revolutionary-improverse-haiku/
In my world, wasting fruit seems to be a travesty of the highest order. I can’t seem to throw anything out. Even if it’s molding or rotting, I’ll yank it from the fridge, scrape the mold or rot off, throw it in the blender, and make a smoothie out of it. I might cut it…
A couple of months ago, I was mulling over what to do with the long grasses which are covering the north part of my property. I know some of the clumps are non-native and invasive species, while the other grasses seemed to be thatched pretty heavily, not allowing anything to grow. In addition, these grasses…
I posted this piece on Wildflowers and Pollinators in the “Pollinator Friendly Yards” Facebook page. After only 4 days, I had dozens of comments and over 1500 likes! Obviously I hit a nerve; many people said that my post and what I was doing gave them hope. Most importantly, it shows that changing your lawn…